Personal Narrative: After The American Revolution

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I’m so infuriated. I have to pay taxes on newspapers, playing cards, paint, glass and SO much more. The British have even taxed my very favorite drink! They taxed TEA! I think our colonies should be free from the British. Yesterday the murdered 5 people in a shooting and one of them was my friend who loved to rebel. My family is mourning over the upsetting event. I just want to break free from England and be myself. How would you feel if you were in that situation? Would you want to rebel. Well the colonists certainly did. The colonists want to break free and be a new country.

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