Commentary On The Fighting Ground

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April 3, 1778 is a day that 13 year-old Jonathan will never forget, as much as he may try. Against his parents instructions, Jonathan takes off for the battlefield after hearing the tavern bell toll. He's sure he is ready for fighting the British, after all, he can handle a gun. But when they meet Hessians upon the road, and the day turns bloody, his perception of glory is not what he thought. Captured, fearful, and in pain, Jonathan has no choice but to rely on these strangers for mercy...yet, when they happen upon a deserted farm house, his anger surfaces. He's sure these Hessians killed the mother and father a while ago and left a young boy alone in the barn. But, as time goes on, he begins to doubt his first assumption. The Hessians actions do not mimic the atrocity. …show more content…
Those Jonathan was once fearful of, are not the same now. He struggles with loyalties, compassion, and choices. Told in one 24-hour-day, this story surrounding events that happen during The American Revolution are brutally realistic and bloody. A glimpse into battle conditions on The Fighting Ground are not sugar-coated and the reality of hundreds of lives lost is

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