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JOHNNY TREMAIN

Johnny Tremain takes place in pre-Revolutionary Boston. Johnny Tremain is boy who is
proud—too proud. His pride made him overconfident. He pretty much 
planned all of his life while he was young; he would be a silversmith and marry Cilla.
His mother dies when he is fourteen years old. Before his mother died, he 
was apprenticed to a silversmith named Mr. Lapham. When his mother died, she gave him a
silver cup that showed that he was a member of the Lyte family. The 
cup signifies that he is related to the famous merchant Lyte who was very rich. One
Sunday, in order to get a silver basin for Mr. John Hancock done on time, Johnny broke
the Sabbath and cast a silver pitcher. Dove, who is very unintelligent and jealous of
Johnny gave him a cracked crucible and it spilled all over the stove top and Johnny went
to get it but it burned his hand. Mr. Lapham sent out for a midwife to come and fix his
hand because they didn't want 
to get caught working on the Sabbath by a doctor. She wrapped it up together and it
crippled and stuck together which meant he couldn't work as a silversmith 
anymore. Johnny's master, Mr. Lapham, said that he would always have a home there. Soon
Mr. Lapham was getting impatient and Johnny knew that he needed to 
get a job. So Johnny went out to find a job. He had a rough time finding a job because
nobody wanted a so-called crippled boy who supposedly couldn't do 
anything. After searching and searching for a new job, he was offered a job by a boy
named Rab who was about his age to deliver the Boston Observer, which was 
a town newspaper. Johnny became a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, a group of patriots
that includes Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock. Johnny wanted 
to get to Lexington, so he made himself look like a soldier and tore open his shirt and
smeared mud and blood on his face and body. He successfully slipped past the soldiers and
got to Lexington. When he got there, he saw Pumpkin and gave him some clothes to escape
and Pumpkin gave Johnny his uniform and a gun. Johnny dressed up and got to Dr. Warren.
Dr. Warren fixed his crippled hand by cutting the skin. Johnny later finds out that Rab
had been killed in the war. Dr. Warren tried to save him but could not because he had
been fatally wounded.