The Movie The Patriot

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The plot of the movie The Patriot is about how the father Benjamin Martin was a french and indian war hero. The son named Gabriel is going to sign up to fight in the war without his dad know. Then Benjamin see the United States and Great Britain fighting and they are getting closer and closer to his family's house. The son Gabriel comes home from the war and is hurt and the all the others that were wounded. The British saw that they were helping people there and started to kill them and they were going to take his son Gabriel and hang him. but the second oldest tried to stop them and the general of Britain shot him and he died and they freed Gabriel. When Thomas his son died he saw that he was going to fight in the war for his family and their

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