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Anne Bradstreet's Burning House

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She wakes up to finding that her house is on fire. When she found her burning house she had been very sad and sorrow because of the incident. But there was something else she valued more then her house, Anne Bradstreet reminds herself that her future, and anything that had been worth value would lie in heaven. It had been against her belief that she had felt this way; showing she is a sinner. Her deep Puritan beliefs had brought her to accept that the loss of material, was spiritually necessary thing to have

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