The authors note about the book. War Comes to Willy Freeman. Has a cause and effect with Willy and fighting for what she wants.
Willy is a black slave in the 1700’s, she is wither father during the British war pretending to be a boy just to help her father, but as she watches him go into the war he was killed and as soon as Willy had went home she found out her mother wasn’t anywhere to be found, but was going to be at New York as a slave,
Willy started out just being a black slave, but when her father went off to war she pretended she was a boy. But as soon as her father died, things
took a turn for the worst. Willy was on her own, scared, and yet she was brave at the same time. She was trying to travel to find her mother. You would ask yourself why would she pretend to be a boy. Well she needed to so she wouldn’t get into trouble and in the beginning it all explains why and the rights for them.
I have to say that as I was reading the novel I came across how different my thoughts were. I thought when I picked up the book it would have been just a girl telling the story, but you see how the war effected her life. Over all the cause of the problem that was occurring was how she was helping her father prepare for war ad something didn’t go according to plan. And it effected her when her father died and her mother was missing, which made a more of a problem.
