Where’s Ma?

Alyssa Czerwinski

12/5/11

4^th hour Hanson

Where’s Ma?

Authors note: Four paragraph explaining that the point of view of the book, “War Comes to Willy Freeman,” is important.

Sometimes books are written in multiple points of views. The book, “War Comes to Willy Freeman,” by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, is only written in one view which is Wilhelmina Freeman’s also known as Willy. Because of that I know that she is a free black American, looking for her mother, and saw he dad die.

Being a free black citizen when Willy left no one really looked for her once she went on the voyage to find her mom. Since this book was written from the view of Willy you get to see her adventure that she goes on while looking for her mother. Also you can see why she personally thinks that the Americans are the good guys in this situation rather than the British.

If this book was written in a point of view of her mom, you wouldn’t be able to see  any of the adventures that Wilhelmina went trough. Also you would be able to see when she was taken what actually happened unlike right now where I can only imagine.  Or if it was in place of her dad it would be less than 32 pages long.

There is one more view that I think would be interesting is the British’s. Being able to kill a countless amount of people without any regret. Also I try to picture myself in the one British’s soldiers who found Willy in the war fort. Seeing just a child about to cry, terrified of what they shall do with her.