The Year Of The Hangman Creighton Character Analysis

ave you ever wondered what would have happened, had the Americans not won the Revolutionary War? -Well Gary Blackwood did, and that is why he wrote: “The Year of the Hangman”, and he portrayed the main character, Creighton Brown, as the true hero of the book. Creighton might not always have been the best student, or even son, but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t heroic. In the end, Creighton saves Benjamin Franklin from a burning building, he even lied to everyone just so he could spy on them, and they still believed in him, they still thought that he could change his ways, and that was he eventually did, with the help of his mentors and friends. Creighton Brown is a true hero, even though it took some time for Creighton to notice it, he went through an emotional change. A change that helped him become the man that he was sought out to be by even his mother; a true hero.
Franklin, and over half of the types, and he did this without thinking twice. He did not hesitate; once he smelled smoke in his room he ran out into the night to see what was going on, he didn’t even put on clothes first. “Without stopping to think or even to don his breeches, he sprang out the window and across the yard.”(Blackwood, 168) Next he beat up the “Indian” who allegedly started the fire in the first place, and if he didn’t like the Americans, he wouldn’t have done anything about the fire at all, instead he would have left the fire, and the indian alone. Even after all of that, Creighton ran into the burning building, not once or twice, but three times; risking his life just to save the extremely valuable types, and then, even, Franklin himself. “The heat was so intense it felt as if it were blistering his skin, but he forced himself on,” (Blackwood