The Indians could remove the settlers from their standard of living and push them into the unknown and unstable frontier of the new world. Rowlandson's account describes his capture when he states, "Now we must go away with those barbarous creatures" (259). Rowlandson also elides the virtue he gained from imprisonment when he states, "I have learned to look beyond present and minor problems, and to calm myself in the face of them."(288). Rowlandson's piece A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, in my opinion, has these attributes and has become one of the most popular American captivity narratives of its time. Norton's Anthology makes a note in the description that "The tale of his imprisonment became one of the most