Literrary Essay-2014-6-9

Blood on the River:

Literary Essay by:

Simon Oliver Stevens

(Claim)

“I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

This is quote out of Blood on the River, Chapter Twenty-Five, page 208. It helps support my claim that 'Samuel has found a new family, and he very dearly cares for them.'

(Reasons)

(Reason 1) “I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

One reason, Sam steals Ann's baby, Virginia, and brings her to Point Comfort, is to force Ann and John Laydon to follow him to Point Comfort, because he wants them to be safer. Sam does this because he believes that Point Comfort will be much safer than the palisade, which it ends up being.

(Reason 2) Another reason, of why I think my claim is genuine, is that, in the book, it says “After she heard what happened to Captain Ratcliffe, Ann begged Captain Davies to retract my sentence,” (Page #216). Ann does this, I think, because Sam is the people of Point Comfort's only chance to survive. Another reason I think Ann did this, is because Sam was like a son to Ann and John.

(Reason 3)

(Conclusion)

In conclusion, any of Samuel's intentions, we meant to help his new family, because he loved his new family, because he had been an orphan for most of his life, and he finally found a family that he loved, so he didn't want them to get hurt and die, so he was trying to help them, which, in the end, he ended up doing.