Piecing Together the Fighting Ground

Authors Note: this essay was wrote to inform you about the fighting ground's conflicts and how they were resolved.         

            The story “The Fighting Ground” by avi takes you back to the revolutionary war but  it has its twists that aren’t always the best for the main character like the fact that the soldiers were told that they were going to be fighting twelve British soldiers which didn’t sound like too big of a deal. Then the soldiers arrived to find out that it was thirty hessians some of the most elite German soldiers around that are known for their cruelty.

            The biggest conflict in the story is the hessians fighting the Americans instead of the British. It is because instead of the rebels having a good chance of winning it makes their chances very slim. This conflict is solved because the rebels do end up beating them not by killing all of them but they fell back because they weren’t getting anywhere. This also lead up to a big conflict which was that Jonathan got scared and ran then three hessians chased him and captured him.

            Once those hessians caught him they went back and tried to find the rest of the soldiers not realizing that they had left they thought that the hessians had lost the battle and that the rest of them were dead so they took him to an old farm. Where he discovered a little boy sitting in the barn. Later that night the boy decided to escape with the little boy. After walking for a while he found the rest of the rebels which made him lead them back to the farm so that they could kill the hessians. Once they got there Jonathan when and woke up the Germans trying to save them but they decided to use him as a body shield and try to get away. But Jonathan fought back and the Germans ended up dying.

            In conclusion this story had a couple main conflicts but they were resolved pretty easily by the Americans. This teaches you that pretty much every conflict can be resolved as long as you get the opportunity