Sophia is a twelve year old girl who has her whole life together but things change. The British came and invaded territory, so Sophia’s family decided to leave out of the country for a while, when they came back the father decided it was safer for Sophia and her mother to go alone at first. When Sophia and her mother arrived they saw someone getting hung, it was Nathan Hale and he was a spy whom the British caught and were sending him to his death. Sophia tried to stop this, “One of the soldiers kicked the ladder away. The young man dropped. I gasped. His neck must have been broken, for he had died in an instant perhaps that was God’s mercy” (page 8). Seeing this made Sophia realize it wasn’t the same with the British and it affected her.
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