Social Studies Revolutionary War Paper

Imagine you are living inside the Revolutionary War, you are alone because your parents are gone. First of all what would you do. In the movie “The Patriot” and the book War Comes to Willy Freeman Gabriel and Benjamin have gone to war leaving there kids alone, and Willy’s Mather is gone, there is also similarities and differences between the book and the Movie.


In the book War comes to Willy Freeman Willy looks for her mom because she is captured by the British. Willy’s dad was killed in action while in a warzone. It is pretty accurate because it had characters like George Washington and General Cornwallis. It also had a lot of things that the British did like burning down cities and killing innocent civilians.

Though this is great book on the Revolutionary War there is also a movie called The Patriot. This movie is about a Father and his son going to war. The family name is Martin. The Patriot shows how brutal the British were by killing children and slaves. This movie is very accurate on the things the British did. Another thing that this movie shows is how the Contenental Army was a lot smarter and had more strategy than the British had.

There are many similarities with the book and the movie. They both talk about the war and how children were left alone during the war. Both of these also involve kids having to step up and do things like joining the army. A lot of the weapons like muskets and bayonets were used in both the book and movie as well. Another thing that is the same is the characters that were used like George Washington and General Cornwallis.

While there are similarities with the book and the movie there are also differences. The story is completely different in the book Willy is searching for her mom and in The Patriot Benjamin and his son are fighting in the Militia. Another thing that is different is the main characters in the book it is about the Arabus family and the Movie is about the Martin family.

Although there are similarities and differences with these two things, these are both good learning materials about the Revolutionary War. They both talk about how strong and organized the British were. If I were teaching about this I would recommend both of these.