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There one of them asked me why I wept. I could hardly tell what to say: Yet I answered, they would kill me. "No," said he, "none will hurt you." Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at another time.
How does this interaction between Rowlandson and the Native Americans affect Rowlandson's perspective of her captors?
Rowlandson began to see the meaning of the beliefs in her captors and adopted them herself.
Rowlandson began to see compassion and kindness by the people she labeled as merciless heathens.
Rowlandson began to see the ending of the war approaching and how she could fight against her captors.
Rowlandson began to see her captors as a formidable group that would cause great devastation to her settlement.