Chloe and Willy are Simliar in many ways

Author’s Note:  In every story you can most likely relate it in some way with another story you may not have read it but there must be a book out there that is similar.  In this essay I am comparing the main character form the book War comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier and the main character from The Awakening by Army Armstrong.

                                                                             

Have you ever read a book and said to yourself “wow the main character in this book is a lot like the main character in this other book I read”?  And then you compare them in your head.  Willy the main character in War comes to Willy Freeman and the main character Chloe in the book The Awakening come from two completely different time periods of time and a totally different life styles but they really are similar in many ways.  

First off both of these characters have family issues good and bad ones.  Willy had a wonderful family they always ate dinner together around the table but once the war started those family dinners ended.  And the most important thing about this family was that they all loved each other.  Shortly after the war began Willy’s father had died fighting and her mother was taken by the British.  This forced Willy to be on her own for a few years, in those years Willy was looking for her mother the whole time.  Once Willy finally found her mother she was in horrific health.  After Willy seeing her mother for a few days her mother was gone dead cold as stone.  After a few hundred decades Chloe and her family came along.  Chloe’s family was not such a loving one, towards Chloe at least.  Once Chloe was turned into a vampire her family total ditched her ended complete communication with her, except her grandmother.  Chloe’s grandmother is the only one who still loves her.  Chloe’s mother remarried a man which tore this family apart.  If he would not have been in their lives Chloe and her mother would still love each other and still communicate. 

Even though that is just one way that Willy and Chloe are similar here is another they are both looked down upon.  Willy is a Negro and does not have as many rights as others because of her skin color.  Also Willy is a girl which means she has even less rights that is why in this book Willy is pretending to be a boy throughout the whole story.  Also even though Willy is free she is thought of as a slave because of her skin color.  Chloe also is looked down upon but in a completely different way.  Chloe is new at the vampire school and does not know anyone so she is not though very highly yet.  After a day of school and meeting her consoler she as a wonderful power that has never been seen before.  To show everyone this she has a mark on her forehead.  This does not help Chloe to fit in better at her new school

Although these characters are similar in many ways there are a few differences.  Willy’s trouble in life is she is alone with no parents, but is looking for her mother.  People think that Willy is a slave because of her skin color, even though she is free.  Chloe’s trouble in life is that she has some freaky power and a weird mark on her forehead to express this power because, of these weird things about Chloe she has very few friends at her new school and everyone makes up rumors about how she got that mark on her forehead.

Through all of these ways Willy form War comes to Willy Freeman and Chloe from The Awakening are very similar but are different in very few ways.  Even though they are from completely different worlds, time periods, and cultures they are incredibly similar.

Have you seen my mother?

Author’s Note:  War Comes to Willy Freeman had lots of action on Willy’s path to try and find her mother.

In every plot there is a conflict in the beginning of the story and at the end you figure out if the conflict was resolved or not.  In the Historical fiction book War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, the main conflict is that Willy’s mother was taken by the British and Willy is trying to find her, but on her way she runs in to a little trouble.  

Willy Freeman is a girl but in most of the story is she is pretending to be a guy.  The reason she is doing this is because if she was a girl looking for her mother or even walking around town she would get yelled at for being out of the house and not cleaning or cooking or sewing.   So this is why Willy is pretending to be a guy which is not hard for her because she looks like one any way.  Since Willy’s father died in the war and her mother was taken by the British, Willy decides to go looking for her mother in New York.  Willy gets there is her father’s jolly boat and stops at her Aunts Betsy house where she is staying with her owner Captain Ivers.  Willy goes there because she wants to tell them what is going on.  Also this is the first time she has ever seen them but Wily has heard a lot about them from her mother.  Willy becomes a slave to Captain Ivers even though she is free.  After staying there for a night Willy decided to run away to New York.  So she does but once Willy is out for just a little while the British find her and think she is a spy.  They take her to long island where she plans a way to escape from them.  After escaping by making them think that there was someone in the woods by throwing rocks to detract them, Willy escapes to New York.  Willy runs into some trouble there to by the officers thinking she was a spy now Willy had a great idea to just be a boy so she could to more things.  After sleeping in barns and the side of the road Willy finds a boy named Horace and takes Willy back to Mr. Fraunces who is his owner.  Mr. Fraunces agrees to have Willy stay and work in the house.  The only one in New York that knows Willy is a girl is Mr. Fraunces so far.  Every so often Willy and Horaces would go out to look for Willy’s mother but every time they were not successful. 

Finally Willy got word that her mother was found and was with Willy’s Aunt.  So as soon as Willy could get out of New York she was gone headed to her Aunts to see her mother.  The only catch was that Captain Ivers could not see Willy otherwise Willy would be put back into slavery.  So Willy had to find a way to get inside without Captain Ivers seeing her and Willy found a way when Captain Ivers was gone.  When Willy saw her mother it brought her to tears because she looked so bad.  And Willy knew that the only way that her mother could be saved would be if a doctor came.  Willy told her Aunt this and her Aunt said yes I know but Captain Ivers will not allow it.  Willy eventually got to the doctor and got some medicine that might work but she was too late.  When Willy got down where her mother was she was gone.  Willy’s mother was cold as stone.  In the end Willy did get to see her mother for a short time until she died.      

Why was my Mother taken?

Author’s Note:  This piece is about two points of views Willy’s and the British on way her mother was taken.

I stood there with pain, hate, and loss in my heart, while my opponents screamed with happiness and joy with victory gleaming in their eyes.   In every situation there is a problem and there are at least two points of views.  In "War Come to Willy Freeman" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier the character's a father is brutally killed and her mother kidnapped by the British.  Willy, the main character, is filled with hatred and misery.  She then sets of to find revenge.  

First of all Willy is telling the story  which makes me feel like the British are bad, but if the story was told by the British I may not like Willy and her family.  Willy especially does not like the British because they killed her cow, her dad and took her mother.  I would feel the same way if I were Willy.  What Willy really does not understand is why they took her mother.  To Willy her mother is who she looks up to.  Willy's mother did nothing wrong so why would the British have to take her.  Plus when the British came around and killed their cow they said "we didn't know black people lived here because if we did we wouldn't have killed that cow". 

Although the story is told in Willy's point of view the British have a strong opinion too.  Unfortunately the British's opinion is not stated in the book so you have to only imagine.  What I imagine is Willy's mother trying to find Willy because she has been gone for a while.  The British found her and thought she was a spy and then took her to New York to be a slave again.  As you can see Willy did not know what happened to her mother and why she was taken so it was not stated in the book.  Both of these opinions are very different and your thoughts about people would be different depending on if Willy or the British were telling the story.

Family is Very Important No Matter Which Way it comes

Author’s Note: In the book The Outsiders there are three main themes the one that I am focusing in on is definition of family.  Which means your family does not have to be blood related.  Your family members just have to love and care for you.  Just like the Greasers to in this book.

"We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything. If we don't have each other, we don't have anything." Sodapop Family is the one thing you need in life and family does not have to be blood related family.  In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, one of the major themes is “Definition of Family.”This means that family does not have to be related by blood.

First, Johnny has a real family but he does not consider them family. Johnny is one of the few characters that has a real family.  But Johnny's dad beats him and his mom and dad could care less about him.  They don’t care how late he comes home or even if he dead.  Johnny does not consider his blood mother and father family.  The greasers are Johnny's real family because they care for him and love him unlike is "parents". 

Just like Johnny the Curtis brothers have their family situation.  The Curtis brothers are Darry the oldest Sodapop the middle child and Ponyboy who is the youngest of the three brothers.  These three brothers are all they have left that is related by blood.  Their mother and father were killed in a car accident.  Darry has to work two jobs to keep the three brothers together.  Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy also consider the greasers their family.  They count on the greasers to look over Ponyboy while the two older brothers are at work.  The greasers help out the other members of the gang. 

Although both Johnny and the Curtis brothers have their situations with their family they are not the only ones; there are a lot of stories and movies that include family struggles into their plot.  For example the movie Snow White, Snow White runs away from her family because of the evil queen and ends up staying with the seven dwarfs.  While she is staying with them she bonds with them so much and she then considers the seven dwarfs her family. She found family through love and care rather than blood and bones.

This proves that families do not have to be related by blood. A fact that not everyone realizes, but yet they know is true. Blood is just until birth; after that, love finds, joins, and builds a family. This is exactly what happened in The Outsiders. But what exactly happened? Love, that’s all. Sacrifice, pain and hate all came in because of love. Blood never helped, it only hurt, this completely proves that it is not a blood relation that makes a family, but a connection through love and the heart.

Loss of Innocence

This is a responds The Outsides theme loss of innocence I am mainly directing this towards Darry. 

Everyone is born with innocence, but not everyone keeps this innocence while they grow up.  In the book The Outsiders almost all of the characters innocence as been lost except for Ponyboy and Johnny.

Darry one of the main characters, in the book The Outsiders he would have still had his innocence but when his parents died in a car crash.  Darry was forced to give his innocence up to protect his two brothers Ponyboy and Sodapop.  This was a big a responsibility but Darry was fine with giving up his innocence to be able to be with the rest of his family that he has left.  Also to protect his family and care for them Darry had to work two jobs.  In doing all of this to make sure is family would still be together  it was not for sure, if the government thought that Darry was a bad guardian then the government would take his two brothers away from him.  The Curtis brothers (Darry, Sodapop, Ponyboy) would have been the only members of the gang that still had their innocence.  I believe that your innocence is a very important part of your personality.  If your innocence is gone then people will suspect of you doing something wrong instead of a person that still has their innocence.  In the book The Outsiders this is one of the main ideas or theme of the book.       

Letter to Darry

Author's note: This peice is a letter to Darry form Ponyboy telling him why hne ran away and what happened.

Dear Darry,

Darry I want you to know something and it is very important.  The reason I ran away was not all because of you.  Well it started that way but it did not end up with me running away because you hitting me.  The other reason I ran away was because Johnny and I got in to a lot of trouble with the Socs at the park.  Long story short Johnny ended up killing Bob because he was drowning me in the water fountain.  After this happened we thought we got to get out of here fast.  So before we fled the area we went by Dally’s to get some money and a plan.  He gave Johnny and I some money, he gave me a jacket so I wouldn’t get as cold at night.  And then he told Johnny to stay at an abandon church.  If you were wondering how we got to the church well we got on a train by jumping on and off the train.  After we got off the train we found the church and in the morning Johnny went out to get food.  We then stayed in the house for the next few days and nights until Dally got here.  To pass the time at the church alone Johnny bought a book called Gone With the Wind   that I would read to Johnny very day.  Finally when Dally got here he told us that he had someone special to meet us.  But it came to be that Johnny and I already knew her it was Cherry.  We argued about why Dally brought her at lunch.  Then Johnny couldn’t stand not seeing the gang for this long period of time.   So Johnny deiced that he would turn himself in.  Dally was not very happy to hear that, while we were on our way back home there was no talking until we saw that the church was on fire.  Johnny and I got out of the car and ran towards the church.  All I was thinking was that the fire was because off me dropping a cigarette and it caught fire.  Then I heard that there were some kids in the burning church so I ran in.  When I about to go in I heard a man say no I will do it this is too dangerous for you.  But I did not listen I went in through the window and Johnny came in after me.  We got all the kids out and I Johnny told me to get out so I did and then the church fell right on Johnny.  Dally went into get him and that is all I remember.  When I woke up I was in the hospital and shortly after I woke up you and Sodapop were there.

Love,

Ponyboy