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Did you know that women fought in the American Revolution? The American Revolution freed some slaves...but not enough to prevent the Civil War...and colonists made thier own country. However, women didn't get very many rights, even though the American Revolution was supposedly fought for freedom. The historical fiction story you're about to read will give you a glimpse of this time.


 * __What is the historical setting for this story?__** I've set this story in a time when war was brutal and stunning. A time when British TRY to rule americans. And you know how they did that? They raised taxes... but the Americans didn't buy. They couldn't. They forced soldiers to order Americans to quarter them in there houses... called the quartering act. They made sure that Americans couldn't pass the abballation mountains, by putting soldiers all around the abballtions. They made sure that Americans couldn't buy goods from a foreign country because they might "spread a sickness." How would you feel if the goverment was controlling you like that? I wouldn't stand for a second.

What's true in tis story is that They would most definetly have nurses for wounded soldiers. It is also true that loved ones would die in combat. And yes women joined the war, but by choice, they were not forced to their death. But some women stayed and others were kicked out. Why do you think women wanted to join the war anyway?They knew that the were gonna die sometime. What caused them to be as rebelious as the men? What's fictional in this story is my character. My character is fictional and so is the fact that the army people let my character fight in war. They might've in real life but you don't know for sure. In this story you'll read about a young girl named Sonya, and she loses both of her brothers, Gabe and Thomas, and when Gabe dies he wishes for her to to take his place as a soldier in the American Revolution around the year 1776.
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===** __What's the historical setting for this story?__ I've set this story in 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, which was a wa fought between the American colonists and the British army. The war that was fought because the British were quartering soliders in peoples houses so they would'nt go past the abballation mountains. A merican colonists could'nt buy anything that wasn't from the British so they wouldn't "pass on a disease and kill us all!" Yeah. The colonists didn't care either way. Oh... and they also raised taxes. And wouln't you believe it...they banned any forien a and what not... then they raise the prices to where it's too expensive. They even put people in jail because they didn't pay their debt. **===

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 * //American Revolution//**__ **(home) Accessed-Feb. 10, 2010**

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Can I Replace My Brother For Who He Was? On the massacred fields, I could see the grass. It was all muddy and torn, as if a stamped of wild bulls were the ones being shot at. I could see men scattered all over the place. Men lying dead on the ground. Bloody, broken, faces not yet at peace…not even in death. There were also men gathering shattered lives…shattered remains on the once peaceful, green grass.

I couldn’t stand seeing anymore of what remained of the newly formed battlefield. As I was tending to the wounded on one side of the room, working my way down, I heard a familiar voice on the other side of the infirmary, shouting in pain, and I wondered why it sounded so familiar. I went over to help because I figured this man would need more than one doctor, distinguishing his cries of pain and all the blood on the floor. At first… I didn’t know who the man was because a bloody bandage was covering his eye and his half torn off arm, and he had several stabbings and ball shaped holes in his stomach and chest area. Then I saw his hair, one of his eyes, the shape of his face.

It was Gabe!! “ Gabe!! What happened to you? You look horrible!!” “ I feel horrible.” He croaked. “ We need to get the bullets out!” Another doctor said. “ We don’t have much time. He has too many wounds to survive much longer!!” The horrifying words stopped me short.// He has too many wounds to survive much longer!!

//I starred down at my brother thinking to myself// Well Sonya… what are you going to do now? Stand here and ask if he’s okay (scoff) or do what you can to help him. For your family and for your liberty. //“ Gabe!! How’d this happen?!” “ Gabe got brave and went up to the enemy face to face. He got minor injuries at first, and then the British started attacking. It was really stupid, but we won that battle because of him.” Explained the captain. “ What were you thinking joining this war?!!” I said as I cleaned up the wounds to take the bullets out. “ What is right for my country and family! Ah!!” He grunted. “How is it good for the family if your dead?!” “ You won’t be controlled by lobster backs if we win.” He truthfully explained. I grabbed the forceps the nurse was handing to me and, carefully, pulled the bullets out from his torn body. One scream after another, each// thump //from the bullets to the pan, I hoped he would survive this.

“ I can’t believe you survived this!” “ You should be grateful!” Gabe yelled painfully. “ I am!” I laughed, as terrified as ever. “ And if I die, at least I know who can take my place.” He said surprisingly calm. “ No. You think// I// can fight in a war meant for men?! No! I can’t! Because I’m not you!” “ You don’t have to be me because your much better and stronger than I’ am right now." Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000183 EndHTML:0000003385 StartFragment:0000002567 EndFragment:0000003349 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/student/Documents/Nakiyashist.fic.story.doc Wetness washed over my sight and it suddenly got blurry. If I could replace my brother in the war than who could find out? How could we //not// get caught? “ Sonya…you know just as much as I do. But your much faster and diligent than I’ am.” “ Then why do I feel like I will be inviable?” “ Because you’re nervous. Scared. War is a scary thing that sometimes you can’t run

My friend Tori and I were sitting on Tori’s front door steps – we were talking about our crushes. My little sister Lashae, who is 5, and Tori’s little sister Aaron, who is 6, and their friend Katie, who’s 6, too, were playing outside at Katie’s house. I could see them from Tori’s front steps. I looked at them like they were crazy hobos. They were playing with ratty, sometimes headless Barbies. My uncle called us in for dinner, by having my cousin Mirov come get us. Lashae didn’t want to go in because she was having too much fun making fun of the Barbies. Tori had to carry her legs and I had to get her arms, because I’m stronger. She was squirming and trying to hit me, so I’d drop her and then pick her up again. When we got her into the house, after I closed the door, she ran toward me and bit my sweater zipper. “Lashae,” I said, “you better check your face.” When she did, she screamed in pain once she realized her teeth were missing. It was so funny the way she reacted. Everyone was laughing even though we all felt disgusting about losing 3 teeth, although 2 weren’t even loose. At first, I only found 2 teeth. But when I went to go put Lashae’s shoes away after she calmed down. I found her last tooth. When I showed it to her she cryed again, but only for a second. Then she layed down like she was dizzy from all the blood she saw. So, she doesn’t bite me anymore. If you saw it for yourself you would’ve laughed so hard!!

This memory means something to me because it was so funny. Nothing would’ve been funnier than Lashae’s reaction. Except if it happened again!(laugh!!!!!)



**__Pranks:__**
 * __By: Nakiya Lundy__**

I was in the kitchen, just waiting to hear my cousin, Steven scream. I had put a remote –control- spider in his bed. The remote-control-spider looked so real. It had long black legs, a black and red back, and dark red eyes. My cousin had never seen it before. Steven had long dark brown hair, (and I mean **DARK** brown. I thought it was **BLACK** this whole time!!!!! Six YEARS!!!!!!!) down to his shoulder blades. He wasn’t that chubby really. I’m not sure why. And I think he was shorter than me, but that changed. He’s at least a head taller than me now. AND HE’S IN SIXTH GRADE!!!! I can’t believe he out grew me, he teases me about it too. That’s not helpful at all!! Anyhoo. So when he saw the spider he screamed

__Proven Journey__ By: Nakiya Laundy

Characters:
 * Selene**, 15- year -old girl who wants to BE a 15- year girl without having to not leave her mom's sight.
 * Mom**, 31- year- old single mom who's over protective of her daughter because she almost died with her father in a car crash.
 * Julie**, Selene's BEST BUD 4EVER (BB4). She is also 15 years old, and tries to help Selene do the right things. And she does.
 * Dad**, Was 33 years old. Died in a car accident.

Mom: No. You can't go! I won't let you!

Selene: What are you gonna do!? Lock me in the room with duck tape all over me and never leave the sight of your eyes?! No! You are not! Because I won't let YOU! ( Selene looks and feels angry.)

Mom: I just love you so much! ( Mom looks pleading.)

Selene: Well. I do too! But it is chewy to do that with you on my butt the whole time I'm growing up!

Mom: I won't get in the way! Just please stay with me! (Mom turns emotional.)

Selene: NO!! I don't believe you. (turns toward the door with her stuff for being out in the wilderness)

Mom: PLEASE!! ( Selene stops to explain...)

Selene: I am going to prove to you I can be a teenager that doesn't get in trouble all the time! You CAN'T make me stay with you FOREVER! (She walks out into the cold, toward the dark, eerie woods.)

Selene: I can't believe I'm doing this. What am I thinking? What AM I thinking? ( She turns around to go back, but stops in her tracks and heads toward the wild.)

Selene: COME ON! You can do it! You have to! You yelled in your mom's face for it! Can I prove what I mean to prove or will I fail and prove I CAN'T take care of myself? No! I have to succeed! I just have to!

(Selene is far away from civilization. Looking for the right place to be cozy, warm, and dry for the night. She finds a tree that has tipped over and has some room under it. She digs a hole to make it more warm and dry. Then puts a tarp over it. Builds a very little fire, and almost right after dinner she falls asleep.) Selene: ( Sighs) It's been two days and I haven't gone hungry once. ( Smile) Maybe I can survive and prove to her that I can take care of myself just fine. ( Something makes a noise out in the trees. It gets closer. Selene looks VERY scared. It does not sound big. A little smaller than Selene. Someone pops their head through the tarp. Selene screams.)

Selene: ( Sigh) Julie! What are you doing here?

Julie: Helping you get outta here, of course!

Selene: Did your mom or my mom get you up to this?

Julie: Neither. I came by myself to get you to come home. (Julie is her best friend)

Selene: I can't. I HAVE to prove to my mom that she can leave me alone and let me be a teenager.

Julie: No. You don't. your mom isn't going to bug you anymore. She decided to leave you alone.

Selene: I.. It worked. (Selene thinks for a while) Selene: Okay. (Thinks again for a while.) Selene: I'll go back. (Walks with Julie back to civilization)

Mom: Selene! ( Selene didn't prove she could do this alone, but her mom still trusted her, because she did the most responsible thing by listening to Julie and coming back.) Mom: Selene. Since you did the right thing by listening to Julie and coming back. I trust that you can be on your own. I CAN trust that you can have fun without me being involved.

Selene: (looks very surprised) oh thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!!!(runs over and gives mom hugs.)

Mom: Now, I'm trusting you on this. Don't let me down.

Selene: Oh, I won't! I love you so much!I can't believe you're letting me do this! You're the best mom in the whole wide world!! THANK YOU!!!!!

Mom: But you still have curfews. You walk in that door..(points at front door) at 2:00 a.m.

Selene: 2:00. Got it.

Mom: You know what I think? I think you should bring over a couple of friends for a couple of days.

Selene: OMG!! You would let me do that?!

Mom: I always let you. (mom said looking puzzled)

Selene: I know. I was just playin.

Mom: You kids and your little jokes. I'll never understand it.

(They both laugh their heads off and Selene calls Julie and Rhianna ta stay over at her place.)

Selene: So are you coming over now?

Julie: I'll be there in about ten minutes.

Selene. Otay. See ya in supposedly ten minutes!

Julie: Shut up.

(Selene laughs.)

Selene: Julies gonna be here and so is Rhianna.

Mom: Okay.

Selene: Love you mom.

Mom: Love you too.

(Selene and mom hug.)

THE END

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