In the historical fiction novel by Paul Fleischman, Bull Run, it has a similar theme as The Dying Confederate’s Last Words and this theme is war can make you sacrifice yourself or other things that matter, in order to get something in return. Like Gideon Adams, negroes would sacrifice anything, including their identity, to fight for freedom, or anything they needed. On page 15 it says, “I clipped my hair short that very night. The next day I bought a bigger cap, one with a chin strap to hold it in place.” This clearly shows that he was willing to change anything in order to fight. He disguised his identity, but was soon left to realize it was like he absolutely threw it away. When Gideon Adams did this, he sacrificed himself, while Toby Boyce was sort of doing the same thing… …show more content…
On page 13, it says, “I was eleven years old and desperate to kill a Yankee…” and, “Then I heard that musicians were needed to play for the soldiers, any age at all.” These statements tell us that when Toby Boyce went to help, in the war, as a musician, he didn’t realize the trouble he would get in, and how killing someone would be scary. He soon realized he sacrificed himself for nothing, and only left to see a man dying, but wanting to be killed by him. When Toby Boyce did this, he sacrificed himself, while