Bravery

Authors note: this piece is comparing and contrasting two stories that took place during the revolutionary war.

        Bravery, dedication, and survival are what keep people in difficult situations going. In the movie The Patriot and the book Sarah Bishop these themes play a big role in the stories.  Both of these portray different opinions of what it was like being affected by the revolutionary war.

        First of all, In Sarah Bishop, Sarah bishop, is a fifteen years old girl, living at home with her brother and father, until war breaks out in her home town. Her family’s house is burned down due to this feud, between the Troy’s* and the Patriots.* When the only two members of her family pass away, she is on her own. In The Patriot, Benjamin Martin is known well for his victory of the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin decided not to fight in American Revolution. But his oldest son Gabriel enlisted minutes after South Carolina joined the fight. He changes his mind when his house is burned down and his second oldest child, Thomas, is killed by the commander Colonel Tavington. These two stories are similar because the revolutionary war has affected their feelings about not wanting to take part in the war, and has pulled them in.

    Also, in Sarah bishop, Sarah must learn to survive on her own because she no longer has a home. She is learning survival techniques and learning how to fend for herself. She also learned how to live finding her own food and shelter. In The Patriot all of the militia and anybody else that was fighting needed to know or learn how to fend for themselves. They also needed to know or learn how to live and survive in the outdoors without beds and home cooked meals.

  The two characters, Benjamin martin, and Sarah bishop, have a plethora of similarities but they also have some differences. Sarah wasn’t fighting in the war, she was affected by it when her brother was killed in the war, and her father was killed for his beliefs. Benjamin martin choose to go after his son and fight in the war mostly to get revenge on commander Colonel Tavington, for shooting his second oldest son Thomas and causing his death.

     Overall the movie The Patriot, and the book Sarah Bishop, told two great stories and two very different perspectives of the revolutionary war.

*troy’s – people loyal to king George.     * Patriots- people loyal the new America