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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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This piece has made people devote themselves to god and how you should give your life to him

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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This shows that some people live for their god and completely give their life to working for him and "spreading his word.

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How can faith and religion blind people from the truth?

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How can faith and religion blind people from the truth?

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This could make her only see things from a certain standpoint and be very closed-minded about a lot of things. When she gives her life to god it can make her see certain things differently for no reason then it goes "again what god said"

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How can faith and religion reveal truth to people?

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How can faith and religion reveal truth to people?

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In this piece it could give her hope and compassion. This could show her what is right and wring by giving her life to god.

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How can faith and religion reveal truth to people?

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How can faith and religion reveal truth to people?

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This could be showing her that her house burning down was a sign from god. That there's a reason for everything that happens to people.

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How can faith and religion blind people from the truth?

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How can faith and religion blind people from the truth?

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This could also make them think that the would is just a lovely place where all bad things happen for a reason. That the world is all okay.

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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This could greatly influence the way people see things that happen to them in life. For instance this happening to her she saw that her house burning down was meant to happen for a reason. It gives some people hope and courage to carry on in life.

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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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This hope from god thing has greatly effected religious literature. It has inspired many authors and writers to put in the "it was gods plan" theme for characters and stories.

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How can faith and religion reveal the truth to people

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How can faith and religion reveal the truth to people

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This could have shown that no matter hat sex you are you can write and that you should be proud of it. That you should be proud because god has given you this gift.

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How Can Faith and Religion Blind people from the Truth

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How Can Faith and Religion Blind people from the Truth

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This could've pulled over their eyes that this is how they must be and that they must act a certain way if you are a lady and act a certain way for god.

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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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How has faith and religion come to shape American literature?

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This shows that her gift from god to this world was her poetry. This poem has shown for people writing to have confidence in what they write and be proud of what you rot even if it's not what you wanted.

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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What role does faith and religion play in the lives of people in general?

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Religion influences how people view their roles in society and causes people to create religious communities, which is shown in “The Author to Her Book” through mentions of motherhood and Bradstreet’s fear of criticism from her religious community.

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She is saying that she belongs to god and is saying how she will always be fateful to him over anyone else "What to my Saviour shall I give, Who freely hath done this for me? I’ll serve him here whilst I shall live, And Loue him to Eternity" (Bradstreet 12-16) This is saying that she shall give her life to god and will serve him for as long as she lives.

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This could be her making fun of them for the way that they worship their god. "My hungry Soul he fill’d with Good;
He in his Bottle put my tears, My smarting  wounds washt in his blood,
And banisht thence my Doubts and fears."(Bradstreet Lines 9-12).  This could be making fun of how they give everything and relate everything back to god by saying how he fixes everything and makes everything better.

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Connection to Puritan Belief and/or Time Period

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Connection to Puritan Belief and/or Time Period

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This is could have shown a way into giving your life to god and give your every move to him

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She could be showing that the Puritain belief is better by continue to write “In critic’s hands beware thou does not come, And thy way where yet thou art not known; If father asked, say thou hadst none” (Bradstreet 21-22) and how many people could think she has “god’s gift”.

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Connections to Puritan Belief and/or Time period

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Connections to Puritan Belief and/or Time period

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Anne Bradstreet’s poem references Puritan beliefs about the inherent sinfulness of children, the predetermined elect, and the pressure to conform and avoid opinions through the metaphor and theme presented in her poem. The metaphor in her poem relies on the Puritan beliefs about children: children are born sinful and need to be instructed by their parents. This then relates to the belief of predetermined elect. Since she couldn’t find any redeeming qualities in those ideas, she compares the way she casts out those thoughts to the way Puritans marginalize the non-elect. The act of casting out these ideas emphasizes the constant pressure to conform to Puritan societal values, people are expected to reflect on all their thoughts and toss out any ideas that are flawed

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She’s could say how she’s rebelling against what others think and how she’s proud of what she wrote and doesn’t care what other things. How she is putting out “god’s gift”(her work) for money “And for mother, she alas is poor, Which caused her thus to send thee out of the door” (Bradstreet 1671-1672). This shows that even if she was upset with the outcome she still put it out there and said this is MY poem.

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This could be a bridge that god is trying to help you and that god does things that may seem bad, but are in the end meant for a reason, a purpose.

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She could be saying she is angry or upset with god for destroying her things and making this happen to her "The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust." (Bradstreet Lines 12-15). This could her trying to say that god took away things from her and that he let this happen

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She could be trying to say god made this happen for a reason. That he knows what he's doing "By Him who hath enough to do. A price so vast as is unknown,

Yet by His gift is made thine own; There‘s wealth enough, I need no more" (Bradstreet Lines 48-51). She could be trying to say that she knows he did this for a purpose and since he made them in the first place that they ere originally his anyways.