Loyalty, the quality of being loyal to someone or something, a personal belief or thing you choose to put your effort in, or someone you choose to believe in. Chains, takes place in 1776 two sisters, Isabel and Ruth are torn from their only family and are forced to take care of themselves in an abusive home, where they are enslaved and forced to obey their owner’s rules and directions. I will mostly focus on the examples in which the characters are showing loyalty to others and how it affects theirs and other’s lives. I’m hoping that my essay proves that the Author was trying to show that people show loyalty in different ways. And what loyalty is to different kinds of people. Laurie Halse Anderson is showing in Chains that different people show loyalty and different ways and what loyalty means to the characters in her story.

My point in my first body paragraph is to prove why Isabel …show more content…
What is loyalty to Isabel? Though she may not of had a choice to be loyal she had a choice to care, to care for her owners and their friends. She may wish they gave her freedom but she did not wish them pain and loss, she cared for them.
“I walked down the hall, reached for the handle of the front door and stopped. Lady
Seymour lay in the silent parlor. I doubted anyone had thought to put wood on the fire for her. That was my chore. No, not anymore. I was quite of this place. I reached again for the handle. But she was alone, old, and maybe freezing. It would only take an instant. I stepped into the parlor. Lady Seymour lay in her bed, her eyes closed, the covers barely moving. Her fire was near burn down to ash. I quickly added the logs to the fire [...] She wouldn’t die of the cold this night, not on my account.” (p.