100 POINTS
For this application, you will read an excerpt from The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff . This is a historical fiction novel that focuses on the same time and place as "Letters From Home by graeme davis." Your total response to the excerpt will be one paragraphs of about 250 words in length. Respond to these in your paragraph:

How does the tone in the letters compare to the tone of the conversation in the excerpt?
What similarities do you notice between the letter writers and the characters in the scene?
What differences do you notice between the letter writers and the characters in the scene?
Based on what you have learned from the letters, how historically accurate does the excerpt seem to you? Why?
Why do you think a writer would choose to write a fictional account about Roman soldiers?