Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher in the Cave:An Anti-Captivity Narrative?

The Star-Trek Borg as an All-American Captivity Narrative

“…Even if the early settlers had little idea of precisely how they intended to manifest the "city on a hill" that John Winthrop memorably coined on the way to the place that would come to be known as Boston, they did know that being captured body and soul by the swarthy people of the forest was definitely not part of the program. As I have argued in a previous paper, the Native Americans were not so much the focus of danger as they were a plot device aimed at providing a gripping narrative of how one should acquire the proper amount of Christian faith and devotion (Tindol 2009). …”