Octavian Nothing v.s. The Patriot

Author’s Note: I am writing this current essay to inform the people of our Country, the similarities and differences of Octavian Nothing, and The Patriot.

The book Octavian Nothing and the movie The Patriot have much in common, but also have a couple of differences. One of the biggest similarities is that there are many slaves in the book and the movie. One of the biggest differences is that in The Patriot they are dealing with fighting in the war, in Octavian Nothing it is taking place in the time of the war but nothing is about the war. Overall, The Patriot and Octavian Nothing have many similar traits.

Both Octavian Nothing and The Patriot deal with slavery. In The Patriot it doesn’t deal with it as much but one of the slaves wants to fight and gets treated pretty bad by one of the people. Then Benjamin Martin also hid his kids and his step sister in a town of slaves, they were really nice to them to be honest. In Octavian Nothing, the whole book is about a boy who’s a slave with his mother and he is going through some tough times.

Also, they both took place in the time of the Revolutionary war. In Octavian Nothing it doesn’t really talk about the war, or deal with it at all but it takes place in the time that it was going on. In The Patriot as you can see it definitely takes place in the Revolutionary war because they were fighting in it.

This move and this book are quite different, though. Although, they both take place in the Revolutionary war, The Patriot is mostly about what was going on IN the Revolutionary war. Octavian Nothing just took place in Boston and in the time when the war was happening. Another difference is that, in The Patriot most of the slaves are treated like real slaves, as if they were nobody’s. In Octavian Nothing through most of the book his slave owner’s treat him like h is normal, as if he were and regular person.

So, Octavian Nothing has to do with some slavery as well as The Patriot. But the slaves are treated a lot better in Octavian Nothing than in The Patriot. Overall, Octavian Nothing and The Patriot have a lot in common but also have some differences.