In the story "Cue for Treason" the author makes a peculiar choice. The author decides to make the protagonist a character that is on the run from their problems. Peter the protagonist is a 15 year old lower class boy, who lives on his families farm. The antagonist of the book, Sir Philip uses Peter's family and many other peasants to his advantage so that he can make money from their hard work. He decides to make a wall on which will divide the farms. The families did not like this idea so they decided to destroy the wall.
At the end of chapter one Peter, his dad and the neighbors set out to destroy Sir Philips wall. They used Peter as a watch out for any of Sir Philips guards. As Sir Philip and his men came down the path, Peter threw a rock at Sir Philip in an aggressive spiteful manner. Everybody was able to flee from the guards successfully. As Peter was on the run a guard fired a bullet at him and it missed his head by about two inches and flew off his baseball cap. Sir Philip found Peter's baseball cap and his name inside of it.
At the end of chapter two, Peter decided to flee from school and not face his problems with Sir Philip. As he arrived home his parents already new about this incident and had made the decision that Peter would have to leave the town of Cumberland. As I said usually in a story a protagonist does not run from their problems, and in this story I do not think Peter was running from his fears of Sir Philip. Peter was fleeing from his house to save the people who were destroying the wall from getting in to trouble with the law. Sir Philip did not care about Peter throwing the rock, but cared that Peter was the only person who had witnessed the wall being demolished that night.
Peter had to leave his family, his friends, his school. I am sure running away is not something Peter was all so happy about doing, but doing it does not make him a bad person for running for the people at the wall that night.
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