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I want to live! Imagine this being the only thought in your head. While running into lines of fire that’s all you really can think. Deborah Sampson could not think of anything else but these four words, while at war. This was her motivation. If all she wanted to do was live then why did she play dead? She was planning on being buried alive. She was afraid of her secret being exposed. Soldier's Secret written by the author Sheila Solomon Klass is the story of Deborah Sampson's life and her peculiar secret. Deb as kept her secret from her fellow comrades for about a year and a half now. Yet all good secrets must be revealed. This secret was not one Deb was proud of but she couldn't turn back. As soon as she threw on those breeches she was no longer the same person. In fact she wasn't the same gender. A man was what she now was.
Enrolled in the army she was ready for adventure. I wonder why she would want to even be dressed as a man in the first place. Didn't she understand that she would never be a heroine, though was her only dream. Why would she put herself in such grave danger? Deborah was not a brave girl but she shows bravery through her journey there is no way I could have been the only women in a tent full of men without tipping them of, making them suspicious, or fall in love. Romance was an issue for Deborah it’s the reason she was first discovered. Rodger a good friend was the first to realize she was a woman. He was really angry at Deb when he found out, but what was she going to do just tell him she was a girl and she wore breeches so that she could disguise herself as a man so she could fight for her country. Well she could of and she wanted to, but it really wasn't that easy. Women wearing britches back then was morally a sin. It dishonored women hood and was highly frowned apoun. She could have been hung for such a disguise. While the days got more brutal she understood the consciences, yet she didn't think they were all to fair due to the fact that her father’s cousin became a hero due to his womanly disguise. Also Paul Revere and John Handcock with their Indian disguises. Deborah had no doubt that she was going to get caught. She could just picture herself walking through town playing the whore's march, as she was hanged. Only to her surprise it did not happen that way at all.
After the doctor knew her secret he wrote a letter for her general, General Paterson. Dr. Binney had only one request as she left his home. To personally hand this letter to the general. She did what she was told, but why? She knew how easy it could have been to tell the cab to go somewhere else but she went straight to West Point. Good thing she did because after the General read the letter and understood Deborah Sampson's story she was awarded with an honorable discharge from the war. Yet she wasn't to as happy as she would have been if she could have been honored as a women. Though she still hoped someday Deborah Sampson would be a heroine. In my eyes I see Deb as a heroine she a noble women and I respect her courage.
Enrolled in the army she was ready for adventure. I wonder why she would want to even be dressed as a man in the first place. Didn't she understand that she would never be a heroine, though was her only dream. Why would she put herself in such grave danger? Deborah was not a brave girl but she shows bravery through her journey there is no way I could have been the only women in a tent full of men without tipping them of, making them suspicious, or fall in love. Romance was an issue for Deborah it’s the reason she was first discovered. Rodger a good friend was the first to realize she was a woman. He was really angry at Deb when he found out, but what was she going to do just tell him she was a girl and she wore breeches so that she could disguise herself as a man so she could fight for her country. Well she could of and she wanted to, but it really wasn't that easy. Women wearing britches back then was morally a sin. It dishonored women hood and was highly frowned apoun. She could have been hung for such a disguise. While the days got more brutal she understood the consciences, yet she didn't think they were all to fair due to the fact that her father’s cousin became a hero due to his womanly disguise. Also Paul Revere and John Handcock with their Indian disguises. Deborah had no doubt that she was going to get caught. She could just picture herself walking through town playing the whore's march, as she was hanged. Only to her surprise it did not happen that way at all.
After the doctor knew her secret he wrote a letter for her general, General Paterson. Dr. Binney had only one request as she left his home. To personally hand this letter to the general. She did what she was told, but why? She knew how easy it could have been to tell the cab to go somewhere else but she went straight to West Point. Good thing she did because after the General read the letter and understood Deborah Sampson's story she was awarded with an honorable discharge from the war. Yet she wasn't to as happy as she would have been if she could have been honored as a women. Though she still hoped someday Deborah Sampson would be a heroine. In my eyes I see Deb as a heroine she a noble women and I respect her courage.
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