Choices

Authors Note: This is a comparative essay between On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor and April Morning. This is to help with my organization, sentence fluency and my conclusion score.

Many novels have the theme of choices that the main characters have to make. In April Morning by Howard Fast and On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor the main characters have to make big decisions. Some similarities that both of these novels have is that the main character(s) have to make choices that could get themselves killed while they are doing it. In April Morning Adam signs up to go into war, that could easily get him killed, and in On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg have to go across the country to save their parents. There are many similarities in these two novels.

Fist of all both novels have the main character make choices that could kill/injure them very badly. In the novel April Morning Adam is tired of his dad telling him what to do and if he does it his dad thinks that he could do better. The way Adam sees his dad is mean so he goes to sign up for war. That could easily get him killed. But with On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg’s parents get arrested for a crime that they didn’t do. They are put in prison on the other side of the country and Adien and Meg want to break them out. They travel across the country which could kill them because they are trying to get away from the police too.

Secondly they are also very different. April Morning is in the year 1775 and he is going into war. In with On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg are younger than Adam from April Morning and the time period is in the 2000’s. These books may have the same theme of choices but they are very different because of the time periods and what really happens to the main characters per novel. If On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor was back in 1775 the choice that they made wouldn’t be so hard on them. And if April Morning was in modern time the military wouldn’t let him into war even if he lied about his age. They have to go through training that he probably couldn’t pass.

And lastly they make these choices to help something or somebody. In On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor they go across the country to save somebody that they care deeply about because they are their parents. And in April Morning Adam wants to prove to his dad that he can do something and his dad won’t be disappointed. Adam also is doing this because he wants to help his country so he chose to go into war to both prove his dad wrong and help his country.

In conclusion even though these books are very different with the characters, time period and what they are trying to save they both fit in with the theme of choices. Although there choices are different they are quite the same for the reason that they are trying to help either some somebody or something. There are other novels that share the theme of choices but I thought that this was a very good choice for this.