The Life Of Sarah Bishop

Author's Note: This piece was written based off the story Sarah Bishop, the historical fiction book I am reading for social studies.

     There are a lot of events that happen to Sarah in the book Sarah Bishop. There are things from living a normal life of happiness  to living a perilous life of survival. All the events that happen in between those are key points explaining the cause/effect.

     The book starts out with Sarah living with her father and her brother, Chad. Life was fairly well with Sarah, nothing really out-of-the-ordinary. Little did she know, she was about to experience the most tragic thing in her life. A few days after her brother decided to join in on the war, her house was invaded and burned, along with her father having a blanket of tar placed over him, killing him. She decided to set out on a journey to find her brother.

    She started on her journey, and she ended up being fooled by the officer of the prison, who decided to trick her into giving her money. He later became kind-hearted and returned the stolen money. He decided to help Sarah find her brother. She made her way onto the Scorpion, only to find Chad's friend, David Whitlock, who had told her the news about her brother. Chad was dead, and this is the cause that she could never recover from.

     She went to a place where she met a nice lady, who told her of the land of the wild, where there were trees, animals, and no people. This sounded pretty good to Sarah. She decided to work her way there, running into a few problems, but mainly being a strong woman and making it into the wild. She decided to make herself a home in a cave, and the story goes on from there.

     So the cause is how Sarah lost all of her family, and the effect is that she decided to live alone, completely alone, in the woods, far away from any sort of village, and especially far away from the war. She clearly wasn't ready to handle the company of others just yet, after the tragic event that took place in her life.