While he was growing up, nobody expected young William Wallace, who was born in Scotland, to become a hero. However,as he learned more about his country, he knew he wanted to fight to help his people be free. At that time king Edward of England wanted to be the king of Scotland, so he used to pay a lot of money to scottish lords so that their people wouldn't fight against him. Whenever they refused to take the money ( because they wanted to fight the English ),king Edward's army killed them. Sadly, William's father was one of the men they killed, and this made William even more determined to fight for his country.