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Summary: Summary of the book, by chapters, great book!10-12
Review: CHAPTER 10
KAHNAWAKE
NOVEMBER 1704
TEMPERATURE 44 DEGREES Mr. Williams comes back and wants to know where his daughters are. They keep giving him the same response, telling him Aongote is with her mom, in which he disagrees. The Indians are celebrating the attack of an English village, like what they did to the people of Deerfield. Mercy can hardly believe it because her men wouldn't do that. Then again her men are the white settlers. People were dancing but Mercy saw it as a sin to dance, but Eben got her to dance and she had fun. Mercy thinks that she is going to have to escape instead of hoping for ransom. It will be difficult to do so, because tracing your way back 300 miles is near impossible. Mercy gets permission from Nistenha to go to Montreal by herself to sell baskets. CHAPTER 11
MONTREAL
NOVEMBER 1704
TEMPERATURE 34 DEGREES Otter and her are on a canoe and spot other boats and go trade with them. She traded her sassafras for a long gray wool cap with a hood. She is going to try to sail with men on a boat and a man says he will send word to her people, but Mercy just asks if they can take her anywhere. She offers them pay but that is not what it seems they want. A guy moves up on her and Tannahahorens pricks the man and everybody stops and steps back. Tannahahorens brings her back home. CHAPTER 12
ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
MAY 1705
TEMPERATURE 48 DEGREES Jean, a boy, is being adopted. He is being scrubbed in sand and cleaned real well. They dunked him under the water a couple of times. Then they went and lit a sacred pipe and passed it and the boy smoked for his first time. Then the men gave the boy a tomahawk, knives, a bow, vermilion paint, a pouch, and necklaces. His name now is Annisquam, which means hilltop. Mercy is getting ready to go away for a year on a boat when she is preparing, a ransom arrives. She tries to go but Nistenha stops her and hugs her and says, "daughter". A man spoke on how the people of Deerfield miss their children, and they beg for the Indians forgiveness. Mercy ends up staying and accepting Nistenha for her mom.
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Summary: Summary of the book, by chapters, great book!4-9
Review: CHAPTER FOUR
CONNECTICUT RIVER
MARCH 2, 1704
TEMPERATURE 10 DEGREES Ruth is getting mad at everybody for what they did or should have done. She gets a knife from an Indian and tries to kill herself but the Indian stops her. Mercy tells Eben to ask Indians his name cause they like it. Indians were deciding who deserved captivity, not life. Being property was an honor. Mercy and Eben learn 21 words of the Indians language by the night. Eben is sent to get firewood and he understands and is happy, cause he will be warm and they can dry their clothes. Indians found 20 moose under the snow and cooked it up. The people were so hungry that they ate it half-raw, because they didn't have the patience to cook it. Sally Burt is the only one that is let to walk with her husband because she is eight months pregnant. Ruth is getting mad because Eben and Mercy are learning the Mohawk language, and that they just left their town behind them. She also keeps talking about ransom. A word they must cherish. Mercy says Eben has to make friends so they don't kill him, cause otherwise he will be next. Mercy now has an Indian name, her name is Munnonock. Mercy is wondering why they came to Deerfield, she thinks that they might need children. Mercy is turning into and Indian because she is getting interested in the language. CHAPTER FIVE
LEAVING THE Connecticut River
MARCH 8,1704
TEMPERATURE 40 DEGREES Mercy is realizing that he is an Indian and she is letting her parents down. Everybody starts going in different directions. Mercy stays with Eben, Sarah, Joseph, Ruth and Eliza. Indians can't find food but they don't worry, only the prisoners worry. Mercy tells Ruth that her name, Mahakem, means "Fire eats her". Joe and Eben search for food while the girls stay by the fire. Eben and Joe go south with masters with bows and arrows because arrows were quicker to reload then guns and they are quieter. Eben shoots a rabbit with the arrow but on the way back Eben has to carry a deer's carcass on his back. Ruth wants to escape; she doesn't want to be a slave. Ruth slips over a cliff but is hanging on and her master, otter, pulls her up then she pushes him over the edge. Ruth then goes down and saves him and says that she didn't want to do it, but she doesn't want to be like you. CHAPTER SIX
ST LAWRENCE RIVER FRENCH CANADA
APRIL 10, 1704
TEMPERATURE 44 DEGREES. They meet a priest who praises to the Indians then tells them that's they will be all right and that they will be sold to good French families. Father Meriel buys Eliza. Mercy begs to go with him and realizes the priest is a nice guy. He goes around and blesses everyone except Ruth gets mad at him and tells him not to do it again. Mercy gets to stay in a house and eats warm food and gets washed and treated stays warm. Sally Burt has a baby boy and she bit down on a cylinder piece of wood to absorb the pain. Indians bring many gifts for the baby. Baby is baptized in four different languages; English, French, Mohawk and Latin. CHAPTER SEVEN
KAHNAWAKE
APRIL 20,1704
TEMPERATURE 56 DEGREES Married couples would live apart but while she slept they would do what married couples do right in front of everybody. Nistenha wouldn't let Mercy and Ruth speak English. Eben and Sarah are sold to people in Lorette. Eben now looks like and Indian. French and Indians start exchanging gifts to celebrate what they are already did, with the war. Mercy gathers corn berries, nuts, and squash in a basket with Nistenha. She is told it was done very well. Ruth gets a new name, its Spukumenen meaning "let the sky in". The reason they went to Deerfield was to get prisoners so they could exchange Batiste with them in Boston. Batiste was caught sinking English ships. CHAPTER EIGHT
KAHNAWAKE
AUGUST 1704
TEMPERATURE 75 DEGREES Its summer and children are playing and not wearing clothes. Mercy was swimming and made moccasins and learned how to make neat things. They would use beer grease to keep the mosquitoes away. Joseph is being adopted and is going to become catholic. Joseph is telling Mr. Williams about how the Indians are his family and Mr. Williams tells them how they should not listen to the priest, not to become catholic, and not to say prayers. Mercy realizes that it doesn't matter what language she speaks just as long as she keeps the commandments. CHAPTER NINE
MONTREAL
OCTOBER 1704
TEMP 55 DEGREES Mercy is finally going to see the city and its decided that she gets a new name. Her new name, meaning "flying legs" is Gassinontie. It is so because she ran since she could walk. Mercy meets her cousin and Mary says that Mercy has become a savage and turned into an Indian. Mary's parents want to buy Mercy but Nistenha says no. Mercy runs into Eben and Sarah. Eben is fine but Sarah wants her home. She has been adopted by a French family and she wants ransom. They already have a husband picked out for her. If she is to marry she will marry into the religion, which she does not want to do. Eben tells Sarah that he loves her and he will marry her. She says yes and starts crying tears of joy. They wonder if they will be allowed to, and if so when will it happen.
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Summary: Summary of the book, by chapters, great book!4-9
Review: CHAPTER FOUR
CONNECTICUT RIVER
MARCH 2, 1704
TEMPERATURE 10 DEGREES Ruth is getting mad at everybody for what they did or should have done. She gets a knife from an Indian and tries to kill herself but the Indian stops her. Mercy tells Eben to ask Indians his name cause they like it. Indians were deciding who deserved captivity, not life. Being property was an honor. Mercy and Eben learn 21 words of the Indians language by the night. Eben is sent to get firewood and he understands and is happy, cause he will be warm and they can dry their clothes. Indians found 20 moose under the snow and cooked it up. The people were so hungry that they ate it half-raw, because they didn't have the patience to cook it. Sally Burt is the only one that is let to walk with her husband because she is eight months pregnant. Ruth is getting mad because Eben and Mercy are learning the Mohawk language, and that they just left their town behind them. She also keeps talking about ransom. A word they must cherish. Mercy says Eben has to make friends so they don't kill him, cause otherwise he will be next. Mercy now has an Indian name, her name is Munnonock. Mercy is wondering why they came to Deerfield, she thinks that they might need children. Mercy is turning into and Indian because she is getting interested in the language. CHAPTER FIVE
LEAVING THE Connecticut River
MARCH 8,1704
TEMPERATURE 40 DEGREES Mercy is realizing that he is an Indian and she is letting her parents down. Everybody starts going in different directions. Mercy stays with Eben, Sarah, Joseph, Ruth and Eliza. Indians can't find food but they don't worry, only the prisoners worry. Mercy tells Ruth that her name, Mahakem, means "Fire eats her". Joe and Eben search for food while the girls stay by the fire. Eben and Joe go south with masters with bows and arrows because arrows were quicker to reload then guns and they are quieter. Eben shoots a rabbit with the arrow but on the way back Eben has to carry a deer's carcass on his back. Ruth wants to escape; she doesn't want to be a slave. Ruth slips over a cliff but is hanging on and her master, otter, pulls her up then she pushes him over the edge. Ruth then goes down and saves him and says that she didn't want to do it, but she doesn't want to be like you. CHAPTER SIX
ST LAWRENCE RIVER FRENCH CANADA
APRIL 10, 1704
TEMPERATURE 44 DEGREES. They meet a priest who praises to the Indians then tells them that's they will be all right and that they will be sold to good French families. Father Meriel buys Eliza. Mercy begs to go with him and realizes the priest is a nice guy. He goes around and blesses everyone except Ruth gets mad at him and tells him not to do it again. Mercy gets to stay in a house and eats warm food and gets washed and treated stays warm. Sally Burt has a baby boy and she bit down on a cylinder piece of wood to absorb the pain. Indians bring many gifts for the baby. Baby is baptized in four different languages; English, French, Mohawk and Latin. CHAPTER SEVEN
KAHNAWAKE
APRIL 20,1704
TEMPERATURE 56 DEGREES Married couples would live apart but while she slept they would do what married couples do right in front of everybody. Nistenha wouldn't let Mercy and Ruth speak English. Eben and Sarah are sold to people in Lorette. Eben now looks like and Indian. French and Indians start exchanging gifts to celebrate what they are already did, with the war. Mercy gathers corn berries, nuts, and squash in a basket with Nistenha. She is told it was done very well. Ruth gets a new name, its Spukumenen meaning "let the sky in". The reason they went to Deerfield was to get prisoners so they could exchange Batiste with them in Boston. Batiste was caught sinking English ships. CHAPTER EIGHT
KAHNAWAKE
AUGUST 1704
TEMPERATURE 75 DEGREES Its summer and children are playing and not wearing clothes. Mercy was swimming and made moccasins and learned how to make neat things. They would use beer grease to keep the mosquitoes away. Joseph is being adopted and is going to become catholic. Joseph is telling Mr. Williams about how the Indians are his family and Mr. Williams tells them how they should not listen to the priest, not to become catholic, and not to say prayers. Mercy realizes that it doesn't matter what language she speaks just as long as she keeps the commandments. CHAPTER NINE
MONTREAL
OCTOBER 1704
TEMP 55 DEGREES Mercy is finally going to see the city and its decided that she gets a new name. Her new name, meaning "flying legs" is Gassinontie. It is so because she ran since she could walk. Mercy meets her cousin and Mary says that Mercy has become a savage and turned into an Indian. Mary's parents want to buy Mercy but Nistenha says no. Mercy runs into Eben and Sarah. Eben is fine but Sarah wants her home. She has been adopted by a French family and she wants ransom. They already have a husband picked out for her. If she is to marry she will marry into the religion, which she does not want to do. Eben tells Sarah that he loves her and he will marry her. She says yes and starts crying tears of joy. They wonder if they will be allowed to, and if so when will it happen.
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Summary: Summary of the book, by chapters, great book!
Review: CHAPTER ONE
DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
FEBRUARY 28, 1704
TEMPERATURE 10 DEGREES BELOW ZERO In October Indians popped up out of the tall grass and surrounded Zeb and John. They surrendered. Indians think if they get one American you will get them all cause they will come to rescue them. Mercy blamed herself for what happened and shook her fist at God. She believes she punished Deerfield by doing this. Mercy has 4 brothers and 1 sister. Sam, Benny, John, Tommy, and Marah. Mercy would dream about getting scalped all the time. She would worry a lot like it was going to happen. Mercy does know of one who survived a scalping. Her name was Mary wells. Indians came and lit the barns on fire and the hay and the kindling. Indians went in houses and saw children sleeping on rough wool bags with pine needles. The house is on fire and they see Indians outside, they also see an Indian on the stairs and then Marah starts crying and Mercy jumps between and saves her. The Indian told them to go down to the bottom of the stairs. As they go down there are bodies all over, making it tough to go down. When they got outside they saw that other kids were captured too. Mercy told the Indian that she would carry Marah, then the Indian puts his hand on Mercy's hair, and she starts thinking of her horrible dream. Then the Indian just gives her Marah. They set off with other prisoners through frozen fields. Mercy doesn't know were her brothers are but later find them. They are off to Canada, 300 miles away. On the way there the Indian that she saw on the stairs gives her a coat to keep warm. CHAPTER TWO
DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
FEBRUARY 29,1704
TEMPERATURE 0 DEGREES The French wouldn't do their own fights, why would they when they had the Indians to do it for them. As Mercy and the Indians were marching up the hill men were coming to save them. They were the men of Hadley and the men of Deerfield. They came and attacked the Indians but only shot one Indian. The French and Indians came out from the trees and wiped out the men of Hadley and Deerfield. When marching the Indians would hold on to the prisoners with leashes and collars, women wouldn't walk with wives and they would rush the whole time. Mercy wasn't sure why they rushed because they shouldn't be running from anybody because they could kill anyone they encountered. Ruth Catlin yelled at Eben Nims to kill the Indians when she was 100 paces ahead, but there was no fight for him. Mercy was getting tired and slowing down and falling back it the pack. Meanwhile Marah keeps whining. Eben has some food in his pack that they Indian put in there and Mercy got it and gave it to Marah but she threw it, Mercy tried to get it but the Indian said no. Indians were carrying the little children on their backs. Even Marah was on an Indian back and later when the Indian passed Mercy Marah wasn't there. Mercy fell asleep and woke up to an Indian taking her shoes off and giving her deerskin slippers that were much better then the rock hard shoes she was wearing earlier that froze and got heavy. Ruth starts throwing fits and tells the Indians to scalp her but they don't. They stop to sleep and Mercy had a hole in the snow to sleep in. During the night the Indian wrapped a rope around Eben and him so he doesn't leave. CHAPTER THREE
NEW ENGLAND WILDERNESS
MARCH 1, 1704
TEMPERATURE 10 DEGREES When they woke up they were allowed to pray. The French Indians were Catholic. The puritans, who were the children, believed that they hated God they were evil and they kidnapped children. When they prayed there was a big crowd. Mercy saw Sam, Johnny, Benny, her aunt, uncle, and cousins. Mr. Williams was the priest and he prayed for the dead and he said some names, a few were Tommy, Mercy's step mom and baby Marah. The night before Joe Alexander escaped they then warned that anybody who tries will die. The Indians had collars around some that had needles on the inside so they could just pull and they shall obey. Everybody is getting tired; they keep seeing more mountains that they are going to have to climb. They cross a creek that is up to the Indians thighs. The Indians carried the children across, but not the adults. Even Mercy got a lift. Eben is mad because he told his sisters to stay in the cellar and then the Indians burned the house down. Mercy told him it is not his fault.
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Summary: main chactors in the ransom of mercy carter
Review: Charters Mercy: strong willed adjustable, caring. Mercy shows she is caring when she already has a toddler to carry and picks up other toddles to carry as well. Tannhahorens: protecting caring not evil; he proves that not against other skin colors when even though Mercy and the other captives are white he still protected them and loves them as if they were Indian. Ruth: rude, has to have her own way, true to her own realign. She shows this when all though out her captivity she wont speck their langue ,pray with them are take to cultures. Snow walker: a girl who lives with mercy: patient true to herself helpful and nice: she is nice to all the white captives including mercy. And teaches her about Indian life.
Natasha: caring loving for all, smart, understanding. She shows she understands that even when mercy tries to escape she does not get mad or even yell at her about it. Joseph: An other white captive who also adapts to Indian ways very quickly. He is a friend of mercy who helps her out in till he goes to live with the France people. Spukumenen's: a priest that is praying with the Indians in the church that is located in the village
by : Alisha Somma
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Summary: A great piece of Historical fiction
Review: Deerfield, Massachusetts ; a home to 300, and a target for Indians in the year 1704. One night, Mercy Carter, an 11 year old girl hears the Indians coming. She knows they will attack, and she knows the men of Deerfield will not survive. Mercy is right, and as soon as she knows it, she and 200 other former citizens of Deerfield are on a 300 mile trek to Canada. When the prisoners finally arrive to their final destination in Canada, Mercy is adopted in to Mohawk Indian family. Mercy starts to adapt to her new life, and when a ransom is offered for the prisoners to go home, Mercy must make a decision.I thought this book was a great read. Cooney's writing really brings the readers attention towards the characters, and how they feel about whatever the situation was in the book. After reading this book, I would recommend it for kids in grades 6-12. I think that readers in this age group would appreciate a good historical fiction book, and if they want one I suggest that they pick up a copy of The Ransom of Mercy Carter, by Caroline B. Cooney.
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Summary: Hey all of you Indian lovers!
Review: Do you like fiction books that have plenty of suspence? Or do you just like Indians books? Well do I have a book for You! The Ransom of Mercy Carter is full of suspence and Indian information of their cultures. I don't like Indian books, yet I love this book. It was a selected book in my summer reading program. Caroline B. Cooney lets you in on all of the wonders of this tragity. Be sure to put this book on your Christmas or Birthday Wishlist. I know you'll love it. I sure do love this can't-put-down book.
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Summary: A remarkable true story set during colonial times.
Review: Eleven-year-old Mercy Carter lives with her family in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the most remote settlement in the English colonies in 1704. Although life in Deerfield is both difficult and dangerous, with countless chores for even the youngest child and the constant threat of Indian attacks, Mercy takes comfort in her family and her faith. But even her prayers are not enough to save many settlers from brutal deaths at the hands of the Indians, and they aren't enough to save Mercy, who is among the survivors, from capture. Forced to march three hundred miles north to the Indian village in Canada through the brutal winter cold is almost more than Mercy can bear, and many do not survive the journey. Once she arrives in Canada, she finds herself a servant, and her only comfort lies in her faith, her prayers, and the faint hope that she will be ransomed and reunited with the surviving members of her family. Yet as time goes by, Mercy begins to think of herself as less of a captive, and more of a daughter of the tribe. And as this happens, Mercy wonders - if given the chance to become "English" again, would she even want to take it? Is she even still Mercy Carter, the Puritan girl from Deerfield, or an entirely new person? This was an absolutely wonderful book. The author really was able to get inside Mercy's head, to make the reader feel what she was feeling, as she struggles to love and not hate, to mourn her lost family and friends yet be happy among the people responsible for the deaths, and to remember her old life without causing herself pain. I can't say enough good things about this book, so I'll just highly reccomend that you read it.
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Summary: The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Review: I liked the book a lot. It had very good detail.It always made you wonder what was going to happen. It made you seem you were there and that you knew Mercy.
The best part of this book was when she has to choose wether to stay with the indians or go back to her father.The worst part is when her sister, stepmom are killed and when the indians attack the settlement.
The author did a good job at the setting. It made you feel like you were there. Also the character Mercy was explined so well it seem you knew her.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: I teach 8th grade literature and I truly enjoyed this book. I have taught Light in the Forest in the past and I will probably switch to this. The subject is interesting, the characters are well developed and it is one of the best historical fiction novels for young people I have read.
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