Puritans vs. Literature

The Puritans were a group of people who were in the Catholic church in England.  As time went on the Church became more and more corrupt.  More and more problems seemed to be coming up in the church, and with that, the Puritans wanted to purify the church (there name came from what they wanted to do).  So the Puritans came on over to America.
Right away Mary Rowlandson is in a predicament.  Does she let the Indians take her captive or does she let them take her life.  "I had often before this said, that if the Indians should come, I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive;..." (Rowlandson 82).  She ends up being taken captive by the Indians due to the fear of dying, but I have an opinion on this case.  If she would have let them kill her, in many ways it would be like taking your own life, but with somebody else doing it.  I am not sure if the Bible actually says that you shall not commit suicide, but there is a great debate about this situation.  If Mary believed that in taking your life, you will not be allowed into heaven than maybe that aided into her situation about being taken captive.
As the story went on I was looking for things that I recalled from Bible class or Sunday school and I remember that the Bible says to give thanks to God.  "Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done." (First Chronicles 16:8).  It says to give thanks to the Lord in many other situations, but this was the first verse that I found.  "It was in my thoughts that when I first put it into my mouth; that if I ever returned, I would tell the world what a blessing the Lord gave to such mean food." (Rowlandson 85).  At the time, Mary had not eaten for days and was on a journey (walk).  She reached into her pocket and found the cake that had been given to her by her daughter.  It had become crusty, hard, and moldy, and yet she still found pleasure in it.  If I were in that situation it would have been very difficult to give thanks to the Lord for moldy food, and yet she did.  It just goes to show you that whatever the situation, give thanks to the Lord for what he has given you. 
In the next story, Upon the Burning of our House, it was shorter, but I still managed to find recognition of the Lord.  "And to my God my heart did cry to strengthen me in my distress and not to leave my succorless." (Bradstreet 90).  I also found reference to the Lord as Him.  "By Him who..."  Yet by His gift..." (Bradstreet 90).  You may not think this is a very big, but in capitalizing the word Him, it is referring to God.  The Bible also refers to the Lord as Him.  The last line of the poem is, "My hope and treasure lies above."  I really like this quote because one it saying have faith in the Lord and it reminds me of the saying, let go, and let God.

Bradstreet, Anne. "Upon the Burning House." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009.90-91. Print.

New International Version. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006. Print.

Rowlandson, Mary. "A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson."Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 82-85. Print.