First of all they both had a father who had a high status in their community. Ree's father was known as a cook in the community and seemed to have had a lot of respect before he started talking to the law. Ree's last name and reputation helped her in some situations because the people she was dealing with knew she wouldn't talk to the police based on her family's reputation. Queen Elizabeth's father was also a person of high rank. His father was the king of England and passed his kingship on to his children. Ree and Queen Elizabeth's father both brought some sort of shame to the family. Ree'a's father went against the community code and spoke to the police while Queen Elizabeth's father went against the country's religion, Catholicism, and introduced a new religion, Protestantism. Ree and Queen Elizabeth were both responsible for dealing with the problems caused by their fathers. Ree had to hunt down her father's remains to keep their house away from the bond company. Queen Elizabeth had to go to war with the Spanish people due to their different views on religion; she always had to worry about people in her own community plotting to murder her because of their religious views. Ree and Queen Elizabeth both have the classic hero trait of having difficult childhoods. Ree had to grow up in very bad conditions, her father was in and out of prison due to his drug activity and her mother had a mental illness so she wasn't there to help her physically. Queen Elizabeth's mother was killed shortly after she was born, her father didn't want her because he wanted a boy, and she was locked away for a while when her sister became queen. The theme of the classic hero's mother being killed relates to both of these characters because Queen Elizabeth's mother was physically dead and Ree's mother was mentally dead causing them both to grow up faster.