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     *Authors Note: This is an essay on where I compare two different books, where they have similar and different situations.*  
        Over the past month, I have read two books that completely reflect on eachother. Reading them side by side was like looking in a mirror, everything is the opposite. In the mirror, your right hand is shown on the left side, in the case of the books, one is written during the Revolutionary War time period, and the other during the modern day. Forge and 10 Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have) differ in many ways, but mostly how the people speak and act. Would you see a kid talking and swearing at his parents back in the Revolutionary War period? No, the child would learn his lesson by a beating. While now a days, children disrespect their parents and adults all the time, and get away with it most of the time.
    For Curzon, he didn't have any parents, they were sold speratley from him to a different master. So in his case, if he doesn't want to do something, he gets made to, and not in just a lecture, but hurt physically. While the girl in 10 Things We Did... was rebelling against hr parents, and they didn't even know it. She didn't want to leave her friends, her school, and her life in her hometown. So while her parents were moving to a total different state, thinking she was staying with her best friend and her mom, she was planning the first party they would throw because the parent wasn't there. Curzon didn't get to move into a friends house when he ran away, although he didn't run away by himself. They disagreed on where to go, so they went in different directions, and now he was alone.
    Here is what was happening at the "No Parents" household while Curzon was searching for a place to go: The girls threw a gigantic party, with most of the student body. Curzon was now signed up as a soldier in the war. He felt it would be the only decision he could make. Always being on the move the master would hardly be able to track him down. The girls had a wide variety of choices that would have been useful of their time besides to throw a party. Not surprising, they chose the fun choice.
    As a soldier, there was no fun choice, fun was not in Curzon's vocabulary. He ate, he slept, and he fought. Sometimes, he didn't even get the choice to eat, and didn't eat for days. While Curzon savored every last bit of his fire bread, (water and flour cooked over a fire.) the girls ate as much junk food as possible, and every night was take out night. Although they were in the same type of situation, going out on their and finding out hard the world can be, they handled the situation in two completely different ways.
    While taking advantage of the situation can be fun, it hardly ever helps you out in the long run. If you take responsibilty of yourself like Curzon, it will improve you as a person and make you understand how the world works outside of your safe zone. The girl ended up getting caught and being punished, when Curzon was sent free. They took the exciting road, but ended up sliding off the side. Curzon took the mature road and stayed on the path all the way to the finish line.