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Monoca is the mother of Magawisca and Oneco and wife of Mononotto. After being taken in captivity to Boston, she is noted for her dignity and kindness. After she dies of heartbreak following the massacre of much of her family and tribe, Governor Winthrop takes in her two surviving children, who eventually join the Fletcher household.
Monoca Quotes in Hope Leslie
The Hope Leslie quotes below are all either spoken by Monoca or refer to Monoca. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1, Chapter 4 Quotes
The stories of the murders of Stone, Norton, and Oldham, are familiar to every reader of our early annals; and the anecdote of the two English girls, who were captured at Wethersfield, and protected and restored to their friends by the wife of Mononotto, has already been illustrated by a sister labourer; and is precious to all those who would accumulate proofs, that the image of God is never quite effaced from the souls of his creatures; and that in their darkest ignorance, and deepest degradation, there are still to be found traits of mercy and benevolence.
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Volume 2, Chapter 2 Quotes
"There lies my mother," cried Hope, without seeming to have heard Magawisca's consolations, "she lost her life in bringing her children to this wild world, to secure them in the fold of Christ. Oh God! restore my sister to the christian family."
"And here," said Magawisca, in a voice of deep pathos, "here is my mother's grave; think ye not that the Great Spirit looks down on these sacred spots, where the good and the peaceful rest, with an equal eye; think ye not their children are His children, whether they are gathered in yonder temple where your people worship, or bow to Him beneath the green boughs of the forest?"
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Monoca Character Timeline in Hope Leslie
The timeline below shows where the character Monoca appears in Hope Leslie. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Volume 1, Chapter 2
...“dislodged from their dens,” was brought to Boston as a captive, along with her mother, Monoca, and brother, Oneco. Other captives were sent to the West Indies as slaves, but Governor...
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Before Monoca died, many Christians sought to convert her, but she resisted, believing that all people are...
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Volume 1, Chapter 4
...away at a council, and the young men were sleeping after a feast, Magawisca’s mother, Monoca, had a foreboding of evil. She went in search of her son, Samoset. While she...
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...the English back, the English set fire to the Pequot huts, destroying hundreds of homes. Monoca, Magawisca, and Oneco managed to hide in a ditch in a corner of their dwelling...
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...area where they are entrenched, and the remaining women and children are killed, except for Monoca and her children, who are taken to Boston. Some English, Magawisca explains, “have not put...
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Volume 2, Chapter 2
...grave. The Great Spirit, she says, looks down on both “with an equal eye”; both Monoca and Alice Fletcher are his children, no matter where they worshipped. Then she tells Hope...
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Volume 2, Chapter 9
...recalling in his prayer the many kindly actions of American Indians toward white settlers, including Monoca’s goodness and Magawisca’s own heroic act toward Everell. He prays for mercy toward the defendant....
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...that he cannot grant her liberty right now, but he will fulfill his promise to Monoca to show Magawisca kindness, as far as he is able. Everell whispers that he, too,...
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