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//Early life Trouble// Hanson Prior is a fourteen-year-old troublemaker from London, England. All his brothers and friends refer to him as Kudy. Kudy is an abbreviation for Kudy’s middle name – Kudison. His family contains six older brothers, and his parents. Unfortunately, Kudy’s mom died from an unknown disease when Kudy was eleven. Three years later, his dad reunited with her after a robbery. During the robbery scene, his dad was shot in the leg; he was sent to the infirmary and died shortly after. Five of the brothers stayed in London; three worked in London and lived with each other, two attended boarding school. The two remaining brothers – Kudy and his next youngest brother – Scott – moved to Holland where they resumed living their lives. Kudy has a buzzed head, dark as hard, durable wood. His eyes are green as Irish grass. Alongside are his small, brown eyebrows that are slightly tilted distancing about an inch and a half away from each other. His sixty-eight inch height span is made up of his muscular, skinny body, weighing in at one hundred and twenty-five pounds. He contains veined arms and skinny legs. His massive hands are about the size of a modern-day human head. His nose and his mouth are fairly small with an average sized chin. The lengths of his ears are about two inches, and they stick out moderately. Two inches is also approximately the distance from the center of his eyes to his hairline due to the fact he has short hair. His tan skin contains various scratches, bumps, and bruises caused by many fights, beatings, accidents, and roughhousing scenarios with his brothers or friends that he has been involved in. Currently, Kudy is located on the Mayflower, making a desperate voyage to an unknown country. Back when Kudy was living in London, he got into lots of trouble and had been arrested numerous times for performing a large diversity of crime such as stealing, thievery, assault, vandalism, and robbery. Days after he was transferred to Holland, he had been expelled from his low class school and arrested for a series of misbehaviors. Some included fighting, pranks, hazing, and academic failing. His main act, was robbing mini-explosives from a market, and setting them of in the school’s library. Twenty-three students and two teachers were injured. Reluctantly for Kudy, none were found dead, however, three ended up paralyzed. This resulted in an arrest, his expulsion, and a massive fine. At Kudy’s preliminary assembly, his pleads for innocents were denied. His trial was scheduled to initiate in four months. For the time being, Kudy was plucked into a jail. Kudy couldn’t afford a lawyer, nor did anyone want to be his lawyer. Kudy knew their was no way he was going to be found innocent. He could also predict the outcome of the trial and his future – prison or slavery. After spending two miserable months in jail, Kudy decided he was breaking out, not just the jail, but out of the country where he could start a new life. On September 6, 1620, Kudy had escaped from Holland Jail Facility. Kudy than came upon the Mayflower. With nothing to lose he smuggled himself on.

**Source 1:** Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. //History alive!: the United States through industrialism//. Palo Alto, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2011. Print. **Topics: The War Goes South; A Trap at Yorktown** · “Guerillas—soldiers who are not part of a regular army—kept the American cause alive (Hart 96). o Hit and run raids · General Greene (American) created a successful strategy where he chased the British troops through southern back country (Hart 96). · British army moved into Yorktown, Virginia being secretly followed by Washington · Washington’s army with the addition of over 8,000 French troops trapped and forced the British to surrender at Yorktown

**Source 2:** Bailyn, Bernard. //The Great republic: a history of the American people//. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977. Print. **Topic: The War Goes South; A Trap at Yorktown** · Both armies fought an indecisive battle at Guilford Courthouse before Cornwallis’s tired army withdrew to Wilmington, North Carolina with the intention of manipulating the war into Virginia (Bailyn). · “During the spring and summer of 1781, patriot forces regained control of the entire lower South except for…parts of Charleston and Savannah (Bailyn). · Cornwallis’ withdrawal from the Virginia cost resulted in a British isolation at Yorktown positioning Americans for victory · French blocked escaped routes to sea; Britain was then surrounded and bombarded in Yorktown by over 17,000 French and American troops and Guerillas…Cornwallis then surrendered (Bailyn).

**__ Story Plot __** Exposition: After being arrested for thievery and vandalism, Kudy and his friend witty friend, Kent, were subjected to slavery in Virginia in 1780. Rising Action: As a result of the war moving south, Kudy and Kent were forced to abandon Virginia. They joined with a group of guerrillas led by Francis Marion to help in the war by harassing the British Climax: In the earlier years of 1781, while the British are marching in a chase through a forest, Marion’s band of rebels including Kudy and Kent (who are unclothed; forced to give up their clothing to higher guerrillas), assist in a deadly hit and run raid against Britain. Falling Action: After taking out a decent percentage of the British army, still being outnumbered, the guerillas retreat back into the forest gaining more respect from Washington’s army and to plan out their next attack. Dénouement: After the hit and run raid, Nathaniel Greene manipulated the British force into a trap at Yorktown resulting in surrender. Despite being referred to as no good, stupid, immature, little punks by the band of rebels, Kent and Kudy earn back their respect with their patriotism and determination in battle. In the summer of that year, Kudy fractured his leg. The following summer he became ill, and in the winter of 1782, at the age of eighteen, Kudy died. Kent lived on and is narrating this story. Theme: War impacted the once selfish guerrillas by making them work together as a team fighting for their nation