Her New Life

Author’s Note: This is a writing piece to show that I know how to explain the cause and effect of the climax of a book. I support my piece with supporting details from the story and different quotes.

            In the book, Sarah Bishop, Sarah is a fifteen year old girl in the middle of the revolutionary war. She had something big happen to her and had to basically take care of herself. Sarah ran away from the war and decided to start a new life in the woods, in a cave. The climax of the story is the British soldiers coming to her home and burning it down. A little while after the fire, her dad died after the British put tar and feathers on him. A few days after, she found out her brother died while he was on a boat called the Scorpion. “Sarah, Chad is dead. He died this morning.” David, Chad’s friend said when he Sarah asked where Chad was. She was devastated. Her brother and her father were the only ones she had and now they were gone. Sarah didn’t have anybody left, so she decided to run. What else could she do?

             The cause of the climax was her brother deciding he was going to fight against the British.”We have enlisted. We are soldiers in the militia, and we shall fight the King until he surrenders.” This quote shows how he told his family that he was going to fight with as you can say, the rebels.  Sarah’s dad got angry and called him a fool, but Chad didn’t care. The next day was when the British found out that Chad, the brother, was going to fight and ruined their home. “I stood there staring at the flames and screaming at Birdshall. I have no idea what I was saying.” This quote shows how fast it happened and how hard it must have been for Sarah. The one main consequence was that were her father and brother died. The other big effects of the climax were being accused of starting a fire and losing her real and only home. Sarah encountered many problems throughout the book but lived through them all.