Laurie Halse Anderson: Book Chain Analysis

During the times times of when the founding fathers lived, the slaves they brought in suffered from the chains on their hands and being dragged by their owners. In the book, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Isabel, is one of those slaves. She was taken away from her home and was sold with her family when she was only 1 year old. Curzon is a slave who fights for the patriots in order to gain his freedom. Isabel and Curzon are bound by their chains from their lives. Even as their experiences may be different, they share many chains events that bind them together. This is shown through their scars, their quest for freedom, and their imprisonment.

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In Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Chains, Anderson uses fictional characters to describe real life situations that some may have faced during the Revolutionary War. All these characters in the story are fighting for the same thing, freedom. The definition of freedom, however, varies for multiple characters in the story. Curzon, an African-American slave who sides with the rebels, is fighting with “my master and those he serves, the rebels, the Congress. We’re fighting for freedom from people like Lockton [a loyalist].” (p. 39) The main character of the story Isabel meets another African-American slave at a well who was taught that “if the British win, we’ll all be free.” (p. 165) For the other races

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The book Chains takes place during the Revolutionary War and is set in colonial New York. The main character, Isabel, is a slave for a Loyalist family. She and her sister were sold to them after her mother and her owner pass away. She makes friends with another slave, Curzon Bellingham, and is told to spy on her influential master. She operates in secret and constantly fears her owner, Madam Lockton, will catch her. She faces many troubles throughout the book, including her five year old sister being sold to an owner in another country. The book’s title signifies Isabel’s struggle with her independent soul being chained down by the others around her.

“I speak advisedly when I say this – that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot County, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community.”(Chapter 4; Paragraph 3)The United States slave owners made slaves work for long hours in the heat, beat slaves, murdered them and did various inhumane things to African American men, women and even children and slave owners did not get punished or even a “stern talking to” for the inhumane things they did to African Americans. African Americans were considered animals. “We [the slaves] were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. Horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children – all held the same rank in the scale of being and were all subjected to the same narrow examination, the same indelicate inspection. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder.”(Chapter 8; Paragraph

Rediker explains that captains of slave ships rationalized their brutality by stating that it was detrimental to chain the slaves in order to prevent rebellions where the salves might

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a slave and having to work for somebody and listen to their every command and follow through with it? Well if you have, then you might know how Isabel felt. She had to listen to somebody tell her what to do and pity her like she was a wild animal because if you had dark skin, you were basically a wild animal. Slaves were treated differently in different areas and had different jobs to do. It all depended on the location you were in. Throughout the book, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Isabel went to different work environments such as a small farm, plantation, and a big city.

In a quote from the book, Chains, it explains, “He grabbed my arm and pulled me roughly to my feet ‘I told you to move.’ Mr. Robert snarled at me”(Mr. Robert 6). This quote shows that there would be consequences in plantations because in it it explains that Mr. Robert a plantation owner pulled her roughly. Mr. Robert might not have gave Isabel, the main character, a big consequence, but he did hurt her in a way. A second place that a slave could have been is a small farm. Obviously a small farm was not a big property, but there were still slaves there. Slaves in small farms would help with the crops and when they were done they would have to sleep in a barn. The slaves wouldn’t really get punished, but they would be told things like when in the book it indicates, “You are slave, not a person” (Curzon 41). This showing that they don’t get punished, but called things because they don’t think of them as person. It might have been Curzon who said, but that was just how

How would you feel if you were someone’s slave and had to obey their every command? In the novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, both Isabel and Mrs. Lockton are enslaved in some way and have to submit to another who treats them as if they are inferior. In the novel the revolutionary war has just begun and Isabel, the main character, is living in New York as a slave. Mrs. Lockton and Mr. Lockton are loyalists and the owners of Isabel and Ruth, sisters who have been sold as orphan slaves. Women and people of color are not accepted into a society dominated by white men. Many people at the time were uncomfortable with slavery, but no one was strong enough to stop it or publicly stand against it. Isabel and Mrs. Lockton are alike in that they

In the novel Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson portrays a slave girl at the height of the Revolutionary War. The book shows what life was like for a slave girl- Isabel. Throughout this book, you see the horrors and trials of a slave through her eyes. The book refutes many assumptions about slavery in the Revolutionary War’s time. Laurie Halse Anderson shows her disgust about slavery through Isabel’s feelings, and through the many traumatic experiences Isabel has to overcome.

The book Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, shows that true strength is achieved by fighting for what you believe in. Isabel looks up to the memory of her father when he showed true strength to protect his family. When Isabel tries to show true strength to prove to herself that she is a lion she fails. When Isabel believes that she can save Ruth, Isabel achieves true strength. Isabel is not born with the true strength she shows later in the book; it is through struggle that Isabel attains it, just like her father, when it became necessary.

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“Chains”, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of an 11 year slave named Isabel. The novel depicts the struggles faced by Isabel when bought by Mr. and Madam Lockton and the hope and motivation gained through Isabel’s relationships with her sister, ruth, a rebel slave, Curzon, the Lockton’s servant, Becky, and Lady Seymour, Mr. Lockton’s wealthy aunt. “Chains” exhibits a lesson to stay hopeful in times of despair. When the protagonist, Isabel, says, “ She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she can hurt me. She’d already done so.” she shows this hopefulness. Madam beats Isabel and sells Ruth to cause Isabel pain. Regardless of this, Isabel remains curious and optimistic. Although, Isabel is legally chained to the Lockton