Hope’s Point of View of the Revolutionary War

Authors Note: I am writing about the point of view of different characters in the book.

The story, We are the Patriots, is written in the point of view of Hope. Reading in Hope’s perspective creates sadness in the reader when learning the details about the Revolutionary War and Hope’s family. Hope talks a lot about how her dad is in the war and how her brother went missing for many, many months. Just imagine if that happened to you when you were ten years old.

One way that Hope's point of view influences the reader’s interpretation is how this perspective describes her father leaving and coming back and then leaving again. Her name is Hope and it’s symbolic to how she feels throughout the story, and how she feels about her life. She hopes for many things at the beginning of the story, like her father coming home. A quote she said in the book that symbolizes her hope is…”I must be an example and not complain. I pray God will help me be more patient, kind, and faithful.” says Hope. She talks about her hope for being patient and hope for seeing her father and brother come home. Hope wants to be a good role model for people and she wants God to help her with it, so she prays for her hope.

However, the reader would feel a great deal differently if the novel was written in the point of view of Polly, Hope’s best friend. It would be very different because Polly’s family is now loyal to the king. Hope and Polly are forbidden to talk to each other. For instance, the reader wouldn’t think the way Hope did and would want to support the king and what Polly’s family thinks about him. While the readers are reading what Hope had to say about the war, they would want to defeat the king. If Polly wrote in a journal, the reader would be on her side about the Revolutionary War.

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of the topic of the book. In We are the Patriots, the narrator’s perspective makes the reader support Hope and her families view of the Revolutionary War. Her family had to sacrifice a lot to be able to live without her father living in their house for a while, due to fighting in the war.