No longer is she the pure English woman; now she is what she perceived to be a savage, crouched over a fire with blood dripping from her mouth as she enjoys the liver given to her by her captors. As part of a notion of cultural identity formation through consumption of food, Rowlandson is diverging from her Puritan English identity – as she eats the Natives’ food she is taking in their culture and ways. Her use of pronouns in the final sentences serve to signal this ambiguity in terms of where Rowlandson places herself and her identity. In describing the waste of food, Rowlandson describes it as having gone to waste as food for “our” enemies. Here, Rowlandson groups herself with the English Puritans as she remarks the Natives with disdain. Yet, in the following line she uses “we” when she relays having dinner with the Indians. Now she is part of the Native American community as she eats with them. She places herself as both an enemy of the Natives and as a member of their community. One can see how, despite her desire to separate herself and maintain her Puritan identity, Rowlandson’s consumption of food serves as her slow entrance into the Native