Similar and Different

Author’s Note: This is a written piece about how the Fighting Ground and real life are similar and different.

The real life and this book are going to be hard to find similar and different things. One reason because the main character in the story may or may not be real in real life. The battles are probably real the whole story may not be true but it is entertainment. The revolutionary war had the first battle in real life too. The gun is the same. So the question is what is the same and difference between the story and the revolutionary war.

To begin with, in this story they talk about how the guns are taller than Jonathan and he is a normal thirteen year old boy. In real life the guns were about five and half feet tall. So they talked in the story how it took Jonathan so long to reload. He had to go onto his tippy toes just to get the gun powder into the barrel. It goes to show even in real life in that time period you had to be at least six foot tall.

In Addition, the first battle in the story was an actual battle in real life. What happened to Jonathan may not have happened. What happened to Jonathan, well to star of he was forced to be in the front line because he was so short. There was a Frenchman standing next to him who was shot in the mouth and landed on top of Jonathan. Jonathan could get the Frenchman off of him and then he was captured by the British troops.

On the other hand, there were some different stuff like in the beginning I don’t think that the Germans that the British hired to fight with them. They didn’t capture anyone; they killed anyone they saw besides their own people. So it’s kind of odd that they sat that the Germans capture Jonathan when that was not there way of battle. Another reason real life and the fighting ground are different is that the rebels would never believe that a thirteen year old boy could be eight-teen. I bet he doesn’t even look like he is eight-teen. Any normal thirteen year old doesn’t look like an eight-teen year old.

Finally, in this story and real life have a lot in common and a lot of difference one big was that Jonathan may not be a real character. There is so little on this one battle that I couldn’t find much information. The guns description was the same in real life the first battle was a real battle. The different stuff like how they would never believe that a thirteen year boy looks like a eight-teen year old and the German soldiers that the British used to fight with them didn’t capture anyone in real life.