Summary Of Sophia's War

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In the story “Sophia’s War” Sophia goes through many life changing experiences. She has many adventures and crazy ideas throughout the entire book. This book starts off in the Revolutionary War with Sophia at the age of 12 then at the end of the book she’s 15. Sophia becomes a very strong and hard driven woman after the death of her brother William. Sophia decides to become a spy and to make sure that the Patriots (Americans) win the war for her brother William because this war was his life and soul.

At the beginning of the story Sophia is watching a Patriot being hung by the one of the British generals. At this point in the book Sophia decides that at the moment the beginning of her extraordinary adventures had just begun. One main point of the book when Sophia was 12 years old a …show more content…
Sophia becomes very close to John Andre and soon develops feelings for him. She soon doubts that what her brother William and the rest of her family is fighting for is the right decision. John Andre finds a liking to her and writes her a poem, plays his flute for her, and gives her a blue ribbon to tie her hair up with. John Andre is soon moved which caused Sophia deep grief. Her brother William comes home and she finds him in the sugarhouse. After she leaves the sugarhouse to go tell her parents the news about Williams return she says this, “And as preachers remind us of Hell to shape our destiny, know that the Hell I saw shaped mine” (118). This quote is showing that what Sophia saw in the sugarhouse, the awful shape that all the patriots were in, including her brother, opened her eyes to how awful they were being treated. Sophia soon asks John Andre to help her free her brother but he tells her that she can’t and Sophia reminds him that he said that he would do anything for her as long as she asked. When she reminded him of this his response was a vow to a lady is not the same as a promise to a girl
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In Sophia’s War by Avi, the story begins with Sophia having twelve years of age in 1776. Most of the time, she sticks with her mother wherever she roams. Her brother, William has been missing for a few days. Her father, mother, and herself had to travel somewhere far away from home because of the British soldiers invading their hometown. After a few days of being out of town, Sophia’s father decided that it would best if Sophia and her mother went back home. He would return but later when it was…

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