Revolutionary War

Author's Note: In Social Studies we are learning about the Revolutionary War. We had to read a book that took place during the Revolutionary War, I read the book Give Me Liberty. Then we watched a movie that took place during the war called The Patriot. After we watched the movie we had to write an essay comparing the two. I worked on using more advanced transitions in my body paragraphs.

Through the novel Give Me Liberty contains true events from the time period of the Revolutionary War, the book contains even more events that did not occur in history, so it is realistic fiction. The book is very similar to the movie The Patriot, which is also about the Revolutionary War. In the book Give Me Liberty thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn is an indentured servant laboring on a tobacco plantation in colonial Virginia. Life is hard, and it’s about to get harder when Nathaniel is sold.  (Elliot)On the other hand in the movie The Patriot, ashamed of his savagery during the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin, one of the main characters, decided he would sit out the American Revolution, while his oldest son Gabriel enlisted minutes after South Carolina joined the fight. (Emmerich) There are many similarities between the book and the movie and there are some differences too.

Some of the similarities between the book and the movie is one of the main characters is a boy. Another similarity is they both joined the war young, Nathaniel had just turned 14 and Gabriel was 17. Towards the end of the book and the movie some of the British soldiers burned down houses, stores, and churches, with people in them. Also if the slaves wanted freedom they had to fight in the army for 12 months. In The Patriot  and in Give Me Liberty  people had to make chairs, tables, desks and many more things by hand. (Elliot) (Emmerich)

From the similarities comes the differences. There were only a few differences, for example, in the book Give Me Liberty Nathaniel and one of the boys he worked with had gunpowder plot day, where you throw all the tea in a huge bonfire and watch it burn (Elliot) Another difference was that in The Patriot Benjamin Martin had to fight in the war alongside Gabriel and be there for his 5 other children and in the book Nathaniel doesn't have any other siblings. (Elliot) (Emmerich)

In conclusion, there are many similarities than differences between these two characters in the book and the movie. Even though Gabriel was 18 and Nathaniel was 14, it showed how much they wanted to fight for their freedom!