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.