In Captivity and Restoration, Mary Rowlandson often looks to the Bible and God for the will to continue on. She sees the same restorative power in being around/near other Christians and very obviously values the presence of a Christian more than any other, especially a Native. Everything a Christian does is shed in a more positive light than when the Natives doing the same. Over the course of her captivity many Natives showed her a helping hand, offering food, water, shelter, and warmth. In these instances, Mary Rowlandson overwhelmingly attributes the generosity to an upper power, thanking God force again giving her strength to carry on, not just spiritually but by intervening and having supplies be given to her when she needed them most. She thinks of the Natives that do her favors more kindly than the other majority of the Natives, but still she does not nearly regard them in the same light as Christians. When her neighbors lent a helping hand to her husband and her to help buy her children back and furnish their home she describes the act with a specific word: “love” (Page 87.) The only people she ever mentions as having emotions this soft are Christians. I see this differentiation as being important because throughout the book there becomes an increasingly blurred line between what is “savage” and what is “civilized”, and this difference in her emotional attitudes towards Christians and toward Natives is the only distinction that remains strong for her at the end. She grew to enjoy or at least understand aspects of Native culture, explaining at one point that before she had some qualms against eating bear but when offered it in the wilderness found it to be tasty, and she had been a bit amazed at their ability to use every part of an animal’s body. When before she had seen the divide between savagery and civilized as clear, the more she was exposed to their ways the more her fews eased on the subject, except for the extent of their kindness in which Natives were outranked by the Christians’ “love” in the end.