The choice of a lifetime

Author’s  note: I am writing this to compare John Treegate’s Musket to The Outsiders.

How many times have you really had to make a hard choice or decision that you thought would change the outcome of your life? How many times has that decision truly changed your life entirely? Well, the characters in the following books have to make that hard choice and this is what they chose.

To start this journey, Peter Treegate, the Protagonist of John Treegate’s Musket, must make a choice to either run or try to prove his innocence when a man he volunteers to walk home in the dead of the night is murdered by one of his fellow apprentices and someone else, yet the killing is done with his knife. His choice to run and hide on a boat causing  him to become a galley boy. Then he gets caught up in a hurricane and washes up on shore five days later with amnesia.

If that weren’t enough, Ponyboy Curtis, the protagonist of The Outsiders, must make a decision on what to do when his best friend kills a Soc (rich kids who like to beat on the poor a.k.a. Greasers). The Soc was trying to drown Ponyboy and Johnny comes to his aid. Again an innocent person has to defend against evil. The decision to go to Dallas for help causes them to hide out in an old church for a week while he clears things up. However, while hiding out in the church, one of their cigarettes causes the church to go up in flames with kids trapped inside. Ponyboy and Johnny to go in and rescue them which all leads to Johnny dying of too much smoke inhaled.

Both had to make tough decisions, yet both still stand by their decisions throughout all that happens. Both stand firm and proud. Both watch a murder happen and then make tough choices. Both get heavily injured because of their decisions. Both leave their families because of their decisions. Many things happen to both of them because of  one choice. Their lives were truly flipped upside down because of that one decision they had to make.

To end this rollercoaster ride, A lot of things can happen because of one decision, and one decision that can change your whole life. That is shown in both  of these books. In fact those choices must also be made in real life even if they are not the same decision to be made. Still that one decision, that one choice you need to make, could be the best thing ever, or the one choice that ruins your life.

The story of Peter Treegate

Author’s note: I am writing this on the cause and effect of the climax of my book John Treegate’s musket.

The story of Peter Treegate takes a turn for the worst when he is caught in a huge hurricane at sea while aboard the Maid of Malden as a galley boy. The hurricane attacked the Maid from all angles for hours before they got to the eye of the hurricane, but the calm only gave them about twenty minutes of work and repairs before it attacked again. It ripped away the mast and turned it into a battering ram in order to sink the Maid and take her crew to the bottom of the ocean, all except for Peter who was found five days after on a beach by the “Maclaren of Spey”

All of that happened because he had seen a murder happen and didn’t want to be blamed so he hopped on a boat to try to get away. But the real disaster is what happened because of that hurricane. A letter sent to his father saying they thought him dead because of the hurricane. He develops amnesia and all he knows is that his name is Peter but he can’t remember his last name so he spends a long time with the Maclaren who trains him how to hunt and survive. And all of this happened because he jumped on the boat.

Peter Treegate

Author's note: I am writing this as a response to different types of POV's.

Peter Treegate is a young lad whose life is about to take a turn for the worst. When he is apprenticed to a old barrel maker who has two other apprentices one of which helps him and the other who despises him. The reader sees the story through the eyes of this young boy instead of the eyes of a grown man or woman which creates an idea of how the children felt during the years leading up to the war. For instance, if you had seen the Boston Massacre through the mind of an adult you would have a different idea of it contrary to the mind of a child. Another example of this would be where If you were a adult who had just witnessed a murder and you knew who the person was that was the murderer you would take a different action than that of a child’s actions. In a lot of books it all depends on mainly the age and gender of the main character and what it would be like in the opposite POV that makes the story come alive.