Reading Essays

Essay 1.

The events in the stories and the timeline happened at

about the same time. While the men in Guns for General
Washington (gfgw) where with the artillery, Isabel was working
for her masters. Since the timeline and the stories happen at
the same time, while something is happening in one of the
stories, so many things are happening in the background. The
relationship between the stories and the timeline is also that if
something happens in one of the stories or the timeline it might
affect something that happens in one of the stories or timeline. In
Chains one of the titles was July 4,1776. This chapter is about
independance day which happened in the timeline. In Chains
Curzon went off to battle. The battle that he fought in actually
happened in real history. Since gfgw is written mainly on what
really happened most of it actually happened. The war effort was
struggling and soldiers really needed artillery if they were going
to win the war. They way the book gfgw was written and its
timeline are really similar to a real historical timeline. The only
thing that was fictional was the lives of the soldiers. They did
camp out the nights with the artillery but we dont really know
exactly what they were saying at the time. While the events in
Chains were happening, on May 2,1776 France and Spain
agreed to give the American rebels weapons. On August 10,1776
word of U.S. Declaration of Independance just reaches London. On
September 10,1776 George Washington asks for a volunteer spy.
Nathan Hale volunteers. On September 12,1776 Nathan Hale
leaves Harlem Heights Camp for a mission. On January 3,1777
Washingtons army defeats the British army forces at the Battle of
Princeton, NJ. This is how real history is linked to these books.
Sources:Chains By Laurie Halse Anderson. Timeline | Preceden