They are fighting for a reason

*****a school report****

In the very beginning, Earl Percy’s hand held up a sword flashing in the light, the beacon of inspiration. The Redcoats charged. They charged forward, transforming into a single entity with all the power of a conqueror. A scarlet dragon as they say. A force of domination. Awing and destroying everything in its way. One sees Johnny, skeptical that the poor farmer minutemen even stood a chance against the incredible force that was approaching them. As they charged away from Boston, it seemed that the war was over before it even began. That all was lost. That all that they had been working for, protesting for and fighting for was lost, that they had no chance against the invincible, omnipotent British Army. With all of this, it isn’t surprising that the people were extremely surprised when the British come back. In the beginning, they don’t see anything. Then the army comes back. They come back pathetic, disparate and individuals. Disheartened and as Esther Forbes describes, red ants. All of the hope that was lost when the British left was rushing back with the defeated British. They know now that they have a chance, that they could make it through the war alive and free. And as for the British, they realize that they are not merely fighting a group of poor farmers fighting for an imaginary freedom, they are fighting for a reason, and that reason was what was keeping them up. They ideal that a man could stand up.