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.