Authors Note: This is a short response about the story ,War Comes to Willy Freeman, talking about how the cause and effect relationships in the book are explained and described.
Nick Roberts
11/09/11
My book, War Comes to Willy Freeman, by James and Christopher Collier a young woman named Willy was living a peaceful life until the British marched right into her city. The people of her city fought back at Fort Griswold, but the British were to powerful and Willy was forced to see her own father die right in front of her eyes. On top of that, when she returned to her house she found out that the British have captured her mother to become a slave over in New York. After two long years Willy’s side, the Americans, finally won the war and Willy’s mother got released, but in very bad health. In a little over two weeks, she passes away and Willy and her Aunt Betsy bury her and Willy is forced to try to survive on her own.
The climax of my story is when Willy’s mom gets captured. This is the climax because Willy was forced to go to find her and trespass through heavily guarded British territory. The big thing that affected Willy was when the British invaded the town. That affected Willy because her dad forced Willy to help him in the battle. She didn’t want to, but at the time period you do whatever the man of the house says and you obey it. Another event that affected Willy was when her mom was captured. This was a major turning point in her life because she had no one else that cared for her so she had no choice, but to go after her. This affected Willy because she had no clue where she was and didn’t know where to look and it hurt her to think of what the British were doing to her.
There were many consequences to Willy’s actions. She was almost killed by the British, but escaped. She was starving and had to ask people to spare scraps of food for her. Another consequence was that she still had to work for the things she got from strangers because she was black. That didn’t change from where she came from. Last, the major consequence in all of this is that she didn’t find her mom, but she found out that she was back in the town she ran away from. So she had to risk going back to the town that she was from, which was, as explained in the book, a very hard task to do.
In conclusion, all the chances that Willy took usually paid off except the fact that Willy had to go back to her hometown. There are many other things that helped her along the way and she was very lucky to survive. She luckily found shelter and food, but not her mom, which was bumming her out. Willy proved that she can survive on her own in this book and proved many people wrong by surviving. Willy believed that she could survive and found her mom and she did. She has proved that if you put your mind to something, you can do anything.
Nick Roberts
11/09/11
My book, War Comes to Willy Freeman, by James and Christopher Collier a young woman named Willy was living a peaceful life until the British marched right into her city. The people of her city fought back at Fort Griswold, but the British were to powerful and Willy was forced to see her own father die right in front of her eyes. On top of that, when she returned to her house she found out that the British have captured her mother to become a slave over in New York. After two long years Willy’s side, the Americans, finally won the war and Willy’s mother got released, but in very bad health. In a little over two weeks, she passes away and Willy and her Aunt Betsy bury her and Willy is forced to try to survive on her own.
The climax of my story is when Willy’s mom gets captured. This is the climax because Willy was forced to go to find her and trespass through heavily guarded British territory. The big thing that affected Willy was when the British invaded the town. That affected Willy because her dad forced Willy to help him in the battle. She didn’t want to, but at the time period you do whatever the man of the house says and you obey it. Another event that affected Willy was when her mom was captured. This was a major turning point in her life because she had no one else that cared for her so she had no choice, but to go after her. This affected Willy because she had no clue where she was and didn’t know where to look and it hurt her to think of what the British were doing to her.
There were many consequences to Willy’s actions. She was almost killed by the British, but escaped. She was starving and had to ask people to spare scraps of food for her. Another consequence was that she still had to work for the things she got from strangers because she was black. That didn’t change from where she came from. Last, the major consequence in all of this is that she didn’t find her mom, but she found out that she was back in the town she ran away from. So she had to risk going back to the town that she was from, which was, as explained in the book, a very hard task to do.
In conclusion, all the chances that Willy took usually paid off except the fact that Willy had to go back to her hometown. There are many other things that helped her along the way and she was very lucky to survive. She luckily found shelter and food, but not her mom, which was bumming her out. Willy proved that she can survive on her own in this book and proved many people wrong by surviving. Willy believed that she could survive and found her mom and she did. She has proved that if you put your mind to something, you can do anything.
Good piece
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