These two pieces are mirror to each other but they both have two different purposes. Roger Williams’s work was with the Native-Americans, to be used as a guide for the Settlers to learn more when it came to the Native-American culture. He also saw how the Native-Americans treated each other and the settlers. Rosmarie Waldrop is from different time, her work is a story within a story, and it is constructing its own form, giving Roger William’s queue. She is trying to find her place in all of this, either as a Native-American or a Settler. She identifies herself as a Native-American because she is a woman; the Settlers just like Native Americans also conquered her. On the other hand, she also identifies herself as Settlers because she was not born in America, she was from Germany and she traveled here to find something new just like the Settlers did. In her “A Key into the Language of America” she is able to include all of these identifications. Her goal is to show the conflict that occurred between the Native-Americans and the Settlers. She also includes an experience of a woman coming to terms with being dominated in the italic paragraphs that accompany each chapter.

Although the two works from Roger Williams and Rosmarie Waldrop share the same name, they serve two different purposes.  Roger Williams intended for his work with the Natives, and this guide, to  be a tool for the English to learn more and not be so estranged when it comes to Indian culture.  He also believed that the English could learn from the Natives on a moral level.  Although he was very disturbed by their religion, he could not help but notice how well the Indians conducted themselves when it came to each other and when it came to the settlers.  Inherent in his language are subtle jabs at the supposedly superior English settlers whom, despite being civilized and acknowledging God and Jesus Christ, are unable to exhibit the same kindness and consideration as the so called savages.  Rosmarie Waldrop comes from a different time but is able to identify with Roger Williams, the Indians, and even the other English settlers.  She identifies with the Roger Williams because she was born the same year as his three hundred year ban in Massachusetts would have ended and they share the same initials, she identifies with the Indians because as a woman she too is conquered by this English society, and she identifies with the settlers because she also was not born in America, and traveled there expecting to find something new and strange.  In her “key” she is able to incorporate all of those identifications.  Her goal is to show the clash which occurred between the Indians and and the English Settlers, she also adds in the experience of a woman coming to terms with being conquered in the italic paragraphs that accompany each chapter.  In a way, it seems like a part two to Roger Williams’ own work had he been able to write one after the loss of the Indian culture, minus the bit about women of course.