Through someone else's eyes

Authors Note: This should be graded as a point of view piece for my historical fiction book "Sarah Bishop."
When you read a novel or just about an event, do you put much thought into it?  When the novel is on the main characters point of view, have you ever thought about what the bystanders would be thinking during these events? In my Historical Fiction book "Sarah Bishop," I read about the main character, Sarah's, point of view, which effects my interpretation of the exact events.

Sarah Bishop may be the main character, but with all the people watching and reacting in the background, do you ever wonder what they must be thinking? In the story "Sarah Bishop," Sarah goes through her life losing her father as the hessians and the British burnt down their house. When her brother went off to the war, she was left with no one at all to help her survive. She had no choice, but to look for him and hope he was still alive. He wasn’t, he had died as he was taken in as a prisoner on a Hessians ship.

Think about it through someone else’s eyes. How about through the eyes of the soldier who saw Sarah running away from the ship and fired a musket shot at her. Or how about through Mr. Morton’s eyes, which saw Sarah buying things to survive and wandering through the woods. Through someone else’s eyes, things can be looked at from a whole different perspective.  But, then again, through soldier’s eyes, she’s just another prisoner who ran away and will die eventually like all the others.  He has the whole Revolutionary War to worry about, he doesn’t need to worry about one girl who snuck out, or does he?

In mid-revolutionary war, things are hectic.  The Patriots, French, and Spanish need to worry about the British and the German, The German and British need to watch out for the Patriots as well. With all of the slaves and prisoners they captured, it’s hard to focus on only one thing.  Although through Sarah’s eyes, things are all about her survival life, freedom, and safety, but through any one else’s a whole new story could be brought on.  Through every perspective you think of, Sarah Bishop is just another girl prisoner running away from the war, like everyone else wish they could be doing.  Through her eyes, she’s scared and worried for her life, through others they don’t really care about her. It’s all about who’s the narrator and what’s their story.