The Boy in the Woods

Authors note: the author's purpose for writing this is to describe the setting of a character and to show what he is like.

Have you ever thought about what it would be to live with a family where all you do is hunt for your family and live practically independently? Would you be able to live life like that? In the book “Woods Runner”, 13 year old boy Samuel spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has long blonde hair that is as sleek as a tigers mane, he has blue eyes as dark and gleaming as the sea, his voice whistles in the wind as he speaks, and he is as tough as an ox. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Samuel is not one to get scared easy, but when it comes to life or death, he grows stiff, as if he was frozen in a time capsule and couldn't move. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war comes to them. Although Samuel lives during war, he has many survival tactics, and must learn to live on his own after his parents were kidnapped.

Suddenly, on a cool windy night, British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel’s parents are taken away as prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters, New York City. Samuel soon finds out that being in a war is not like playing what some call it, “war” with friends, he figures out that this is the real deal. Samuel must beat the British to win the war. Samuel is not one to give up, he fights with all his might as if he was a mother bear protecting her cubs.