Author's Note: I am working on Point-of-View. The book I am reading is "The Fighting Ground". It is comparing Jonathan (Main Character) and the Hessians (German Soldiers) view of each other.
It is Revolutionary War time and a 13 year-old boy named Jonathan wants to fight in the war. His doesn't want him to go to war, but since his father is hurt with a leg problem, Jonathan runs off and disobeys his father. Once the first shots are fired, war is nothing Jonathan thought it would be. After the battle he surrenders himself to the Hessians. The Hessians speak German and Jonathan speaks English, so they have totally different perspectives of each other. In the book it is weird because when you know what Jonathan thinks about the Hessians, but when you see what the heesians are acually saying it gives you a whole different perspective of them. To Jonathan they are emotion-less people that want to kill Jonathan. Jonathan doesn't know what they are saying, but he can kind of guess. The Hessians think of Jonathan as a weak little boy that shouldn't be in the war. Since they speak different languages they really don't know what the other is thinking.
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