Revised Forging for Freedom

Author's note:
This was a piece I wrote about a month ago, but I decided to revise it to make it into a better piece. In this piece I will be analyzing the cause and effect in the story Forge by Lauri Halse Anderson, witch tells of a young slave seeking freedom during the American Revolution. 

When Curzon ran away from his cruel master, to join the Continental army, he never though it would change his life... forever. He had thought he would be caught again. But he ran away for reasons that need no explanation, he was a slave and wanted to be a free man. He had been born into slavery and separated from his mother and father at an early age. He was able to escape with the help of a friend named Isabel; she would later become a major part of the story.

The climax or main turning point of the story was Curzon escaping his master. His reasons for escaping, were obvious, he was a slave. He then finds refuge in a small town working for a military supplier, who is secretly stealing goods from the war effort. He is then forced out of the city, and not long after, Isabel runs away. Heartbroken, by Isabel's decision, Curzon decides to keep heading toward the closest military camp, where he successfully joins the army and makes friends.

Later in the story, Curzon's old master finds him, and plans to manipulate Curzon to have him come back to his control. He is successful at this. As an effect of Curzon running away, Bellingham (his master) wants to make sure he learned his lesson. He commands Curzon to call him "master", and do the most strenuous jobs, he could think of. When Curzon's plan of escape reaches Bellingham's ears, he has another slave come work for him. And when Curzon saw who  it was, he was speechless. There Isabel stood.

Curzon is then more determined to escape then ever. He gets in touch with his old military friends, and work out a plan for both of them to escape. They folow thorough with the plan and successively escape. And for the first time ever, both Isabel, and Curzon stood free. After all the years of pain and suffering, Curzon had been through, it was finally over. But had Curzon had never escaped from his master the first time, he would have never lived free. While George Washington and the other Founding Fathers were fighting for freedom of a nation, Curzon was fighting for his own freedom, something unheard of with all slaves.