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.