A journal reflects a writer’s perspective toward contemporary worldview, people around the one, and even himself or herself. Journals have valuable context because the writer does not write it for future readers, but writes for a few audience. The book, “The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr 1754-1757,” describes the view of women in America during the colonial period. Esther Edwards Burr who was born February 13, 1732 wrote the journal. Esther. It was the late colonial American period. She grew up in a religious family since her father was the minister of Northampton’s Congregational church. Although she was not famous as Esther’s father, her mother attributed to the Great Awakening. In this Puritan family, Esther found that God’s will for women was not same as for men. She learned that women should follow God’s will on themselves and husbands’ will together. Therefore, women in Puritan families and colonial America were supposed to work primarily for family. This was because of the ordering of God’s creation. With this growth, she quickly married Aaron Burr, a minister and sixteen years older than Esther. Esther wrote journals from October 1, 1754 to September 2, 1757. These were not just journals. Esther wrote them as a series…show more content… It is negative because the journals contain private records for herself. They are for Esther and Sarah. Therefore, Esther does not need to hide her feelings to her closest friend. In many entries, Esther mentions Mr. Burr, her husband. Her sudden marriage was not perfectly happy, so her entries sometimes include complaints about her husband. She also wrote about her wearyness of the world. For example, when visitors came at night, she recorded her feeling in an entry that it was too harsh to visit late at night although she liked to serve others. The many complaints about others and the world in the entries explain that there were limits to the expression of women’s opinion outside private
