SS Comparison Essay

Author's Note: I just read The Fighting Ground and watched “The Patriot”. I am comparing Jonathan (Main character in The Fighting Ground) and Gabriel (One of the main characters of “The Patriot”). 

What would it be like to live in the time of the Revolutionary War? Would you want to fight for freedom or just sit back and wait till the war was over? Well, Jonathan and Gabriel were tired of waiting and wanted to get into the war. They disobeyed their fathers and joined the continental army. In a way these two are very much alike.

There were many similarities between The Patriot and The Fighting Ground. Just like Jonathan, Gabriel went to war even though his father didn’t want him to. Both of their fathers had been in war so they knew what it was like and didn't want their son to go through that; both of the fathers had been heroes in the French & Indian war. Also Jonathan and Gabriel both ended up getting captured; Jonathan by Hessians, Gabriel by the Red Coats. These two seem very similar, but have some differences too. 

There were many differences between the two, like luckily for Gabriel when he was captured his father came to save him unlike Jonathan who had to escape himself. Jonathan's father had a leg problem so he couldn't do anything about it. Gabriel was older than Jonathan; he was trained to ride a horse and was able to reload a musket quickly. Unlike Jonathan who was 14 and couldn't even carry the gun on his back.

Back in that time every boy want to help out in the continental army mostly likely because they don't know it will be like. There were some tough times back then, and it think Jonathan and Gabriel found out the hard way. Though Gabriel died in the end, if he had of lived, it would have something they would never forget.