A Different View of Things

Author's Note: this is a point of view piece of another soldier that is a rebel aong with the group that Jonathan is in.
 
This book is written in the point of view of main character. In The Fighting Ground there is a young 13 year old boy named Jonathan that dreams of being in a patriot and fighting the British. He also never listen to his father because he always dreams of being a part of the rebels or commonly known as the patriots. But he is only 13 and you have to be at least 18 or older to be able to enroll in the army. He is very scared on in the inside as you read on you can feel the words and put yourself into his position and just picture what he is going through. Of course is furious at this because he would do anything to be a part of the rebel and the war. The thing he doesn’t understand that he is getting himself into a lot of dangerous events that he really doesn’t want to be a part of.

                One way that Jonathan point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective describes when they are marching for days and days just to get to Pennington. It shows how Jonathan is tired because he has to carry a rife that is the taller than him and weights a ton for him because he is not a grown man to carry it all. There first stop is in Rocktown, in this scene he talks about how they get to the town well and they see a woman drawing water from the well and after awhile the woman finally fills a bucket up and passes it around to the men. Since Jonathan was so young and small he never got enough courage to ask one of the men for a sip of the water. He describes very well in words say how scared he was to ever ask the simple question if he could have some water. Then finally when they get to their first battle you could just put yourself into Jonathan’s position again and just think about how you would feel being a 13 year old in the revolutionary war. The coronal takes Jonathan and says short one in the front. Now this just gets your heart racing. He is put next to one of the Frenchman that is brand new to America. There were shots flying everywhere, and then bam a bullet goes right into the mouth of the Frenchman. He falls right onto Jonathan the thing is, his heart is still beating. Yes the Frenchman was not yet died from the bullet. And Jonathan couldn’t push him off.

                I think that in the battle scene that the author could not have had the Frenchman shot in the mouth instead have him be shot in the arm or something because that just makes it gross and not that realistic with the bullet in the mouth. I think that if this book was written in the point of view of the coronal if he saw that bullet hit the Frenchman he would care much about him or Jonathan. I don’t think even Jonathan would even existed because they never get to know each other that close they don’t even know each other’s names. It probable was more like he saw his men falling with every shot taken so he called the retreat so that not everyone would die in front of him.

                The importance of a reader to see things in different point of views is to help understand a story more and really put you into a book and enjoy them more. I think that books can be more and I guarantee that anybody that loves book are those people that out them self into the position of the main character.