Finding Mom

Authors Note: This piece is about what the main conflict and resolution is throughout the novel War Comes to Willy Freeman.

War Comes to Willy Freeman, by James Lincoln and Christopher Collier is about a young girl named Willy going on a long search to find her mother. Willy’s mom vanished from their house but Willy discovers that she had been taken by the Redcoats to be a slave in New York. Willy’s dad had gotten stabbed by the British during the Revolutionary War and is now dead. Even though Willy is alone, her mission is to dress like a boy and travel to New York to find her mother. Finding Willy’s mother is one of the main conflicts throughout the story.
In the novel the resolution would be that she finds her mother, her mother was kept at the Ivers in New York. But eventually her mother becomes sick and weak and after a while she soon dies. Luckily Willy got to see her mom and talk to her before she passed or that would have been a waste of time. Willy and I are alike because we would do anything to find our mom which includes traveling throughout the state to be with her.