The Revolutionary War Had an impact on everyone’s Life

Author's Note: In Social Studies we read a book and watched a movie both, happened during the Revolutionary time period.  In this essay I comparing the movie to the book.

 Imagine being in the time period where the Revolutionary War was going on.  This would have been a horrific time to have your childhood.  In social studies we were a assigned a book to read during this time period the book I read was War comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier.  Almost all of the books that we read were in the perspective of a child.  We then watched a movie call The Patriot by Robert Rodat.  Through both the movie and the book there were similarities and differences during this time period.     

First off the similarities, in both the novel and the movie there was at least one loved one who died because of the war that was going on.  In the novel Willy the main character her father died fighting in the war.  This made life difficult for her to live because then her mother was taken by the British.  In the movie Benjamin had multiple family members who died first in the beginning of the movie his second oldest son his name was Thomas he was shot by Colonel Tavington trying to save his brother.  Later in the story Benjamin's oldest son was stabbed by colonel Tavington fighting in the war.  In the beginning of the movie we were told that his wife died. 

Although there are similarities there are also differences, in the movie The Patriot it was in the perspective of a widow father of seven, his name was Benjamin Martin.  The novel was in the perspective of a little girl named Willy.  These stories took place at the same time however they are told from two different generations.  If both the movie and the novel were told from the other side of the war the British we might not have like the main characters.  Or if in the novel it was told by an adult or the movie if it was told by a child.  The perspectives of the novel and the movie would have totally changed the way you thought of the characters.  

Though both The Patriot and War Comes to Willy Freeman they are written in the same time period they had some differences and similarities.  But over all war had a big impact on both the novel and the movie.