Who's View?

                                                                                                                                

Author’s note: I wrote this to tell the point of view in the story so the readers can understand the reason and point of view.  


In the book John Treegate’s Musket there is a fight between the mob (civilians,) and Redcoats (the soldiers). The story has characters in the story that are going through person versus person conflict. The story’s main character is Peter. As you read through the story you will read  through Peter’s point of view. Peter’s point of view makes the reader think what Peter is feeling, for example Peter feels that the fight between the Mob and the Redcoats are his fault, so the readers believe him. The readers think that the tragedy of Peter getting beat by the redcoats is wrong and the redcoats deserve to get treated bad by the mob for what they did. Everyone thinks that the redcoats are bullies and should be hung. When a fight breaks out in Boston, havoc starts after the mob throws snow balls at the redcoats. The redcoats start firing shots and killing people. The mob retreats with the dead and wounded. So the readers think that the mob should have not thrown snowballs at the redcoats. In the story you see that peter’s point of view about the redcoats getting hung is his fault, but the readers think it is not and it is in a way. The reason why readers think it is not Peter’s fault that the redcoats should get hanged is because the redcoat beat on an 11 year old child. The reason why readers think that it is Peter’s fault is because he was seen by civilians getting beat, and cause the mob to get so violent and cause so much trouble                                                                                        


After the massacre, people kept fighting the redcoats and having conversations about the massacre. Mr. Fielding (Peter’s Master) and Mr. Adams (old master of Peter’s) was talking about finding the boy who was seen getting beat on by the soldier (Peter). So Peter thinks that he will get hung for all the trouble that he caused in his point of view. The point of view makes the readers not believe that Peter would really get into trouble. That views the bias in the story. Which the bias is peter blaming himself in the story when he is innocent. And later on in the story the Redcoats might blame Peter for what did to make the mob start attacking the lieutenant governor. That might be what the readers think from the book. The readers will understand the mobs ferocity acting against the Redcoats.  


Finally saying that in another’s point of view like the Redcoat captain, that was beating on peter would have thought that it was peters fault that the mob attacked them (the Redcoats). When the captain would blame the boy, when it was the captains fault for the mob attacking the Redcoats. They would have never attacked the Redcoats and start the massacre if the soldier was not sawn beating the boy in the place. There tell the point of view