Fifth of March

Author’s Note: I want to talk about what people feel and think about the book I am reading at the moment. The book “The Fifth of March” discusses the troubles that happened when the British troops traveled to Boston and stayed for a few months.

In “The Fifth of March” Rachel Marsh has just transferred to Boston, because of her monstrous Uncle Jeb. Both of her parents died when she was younger, and now her uncle is the authority of herself. She is having troubles throughout her lifetime lately, and she is confused about what she should try and do.

As you may presume Rachel is the narrator for this storyline of the book. Therefore, this chronicle is a story about Rachel’s life, and her point of view of the world. She takes the events in her life, and possibly recreates them to her style. It may have an effect on what actually happened, or it may not. Rachel thinks certain ideas and thoughts, and she lives her own lifestyle.

This paperback may, or may not get the reader’s emotions going, but I know it did for me. It has many vivid images that you can picture in your mind, for what is happening. Rachel’s emotions most likely effect how you feel about other characters in the storyline. Such as, Rachel doesn’t like her Uncle Jeb, because it seems like he does not care for her, and all he wants is her inheritance from her parents. Therefore I predict that almost everyone that reads this story won’t like him either. It all depends on how the main character feels about everything, then that’ll affect how the reader’s see the story.

In other words, if Uncle Jeb was the narrator, or main character of the story, I supposed he would tell everything different. From the day he moved to Boston, to now when he got attacked from a mob of strangers. He would most likely tell his side of how he feels about Rachel, but he tries to hide it from her. He would also inform the readers on how he lives these days selling and making clothes and shoes.

Formally most books have one main character, and that main character notifies the reader’s about their lives, as you can see. The main point of view of a story or tell-tale forces the readers to imagine just one side of the story, for an event or topic. So you can see that in “The Fifth of March” Rachel Marsh has a different view point from any other character in the story.