Point of View within the Eyes of a Brave Girl

Author's Note:This piece of writing is the point of view of Willy from "War Comes to Willy Freeman"


In “War Comes to Willy Freeman”, a teenage girl, Willy experiences a life changing situation, her father’s death and the absence of her mother. The Redcoats stabbed her father to death and on Willy’s way home she notices her mother has been taken by the British as a prisoner in New York. Willy disguises as a boy and goes on an adventure to find her mother.
One way Willy’s point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective shows that the Redcoats are very cruel people. It was very terrifying to see the British barge into the fort and watch the Redcoats take everyone out, including Willy’s father. Willy showed bravery while facing this scene in the book; Willy sat there in the corner experiencing the death of everyone. What if she was next? Wouldn’t you be scared? She sat there not knowing what would happen next, but luckily she made it.
I would see a whole different perspective if I was looking through the eyes of Willy’s mother throughout the novel. For instance, the readers would still think badly about the British because they took her mother as a prisoner, but we would be able to imagine what the other prisoners were like, and if they were black to. Was it a racial thing? Or did they just take whoever they could find? Also, we would be able to see the things they said to her mother before/while they were taking her, or if they said why they were taking her.
Obviously, in “War Comes to Willy Freeman” Willy’s perspective makes the reader see one side of a story, it also makes us believe that the Redcoats are the “bad guys”. This novel personally showed the readers that Willy is very strong; he survived without parents and made an effort to find his mother because she loves her. I think that if the point of view was from the eyes of the mother the book would give us a better understanding of how the British treated prisoners. Overall it was showed a great adventure and it also had an emotional side.