He is paid much less than the other missionaries and takes on tasks that others would not do. He thinks it's predetermined and he couldn't have done anything better. "I am therefore prepared to say that they have used us thus, because I cannot teach the Indians as well as the other missionaries, but I can assure them that I endeavor to teach them as well as I do how - but I must say that I believe it is because I am a poor Indian I can do nothing about it, that God made me like this” Samson Occom shows us that he wants. to be able to express himself on a larger scale He began to learn many languages ​​and become familiar with Christian religious texts and to depart from the tradition of his “pagan” brothers (Occom Il s). It's a story of self-discovery and the quest for self-knowledge held in his world of social and economic inequality. He returns but he doesn't allow it to hinder him.