so I am writing a novel in which the main character is an american who has been assimilated into communism. there is a war going on, and he is seperated from his platoon. an american sergeant is trying to track him down, so he can convince him that communism is wrong so that he will fight for america. if you want to understand completely the story is here topic73681.html
anyway, I'm in need of a plot device. you see, I'm trying to have him discover that he is fighting for the wrong side while he makes a journy from alaska to russia. I want him to be saved from freezing to death by an american family, and then have the family get killed by the russians. this is were the first split happens. I could either have him regroup with the russian soldiers, somehow explaining how he is actually a fourteen year old russian super soldier and not an american boy like he looks like, or I could have him run away. I also want him to visit a russian town, and see how evil one of the communist leaders is, and how terrible it is for the people there, but I have no plot device to get him there. why would he cross the sea back to russia? why would he stay with civilians and not the military? why isn't the military sending him on missions? I would also like McClellan (the sergeant) to catch up to him at some point but this doesn't have to happen.
if anyone has any suggestions that keep the first two events happening, please post them.
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