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Themes Of Johnny Tremain

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Esther Forbes published Johnny Tremain in 1943, when the United States was in the middle of World War II, in which the United States and the United Kingdom ,yet another way to refer to Great Britain, were allies. But that's okay because Forbes makes it clear that England is not the real enemy but the real enemy is any government that threatens the liberty of its people or just doesn't stand up for them. So, in a roundabout way, Johnny Tremain is partly about the importance of workman's comp laws. Johnny Tremain, the book and the movie, were very different because of the events and the characters; and similar because of the plot, and timeline. Johnny Tremain, an orphan is apprenticed to silversmith Emphraim Lapham. When we meet Johnny, his entire identity is wrapped up in being a fantastic silversmith. He's career driven since he is only an apprentice, but he's running his master's shop. Johnny's natural arrogance will always be his downfall, but he slowly learns to control it, along with his naturally quick temper. From believing that he knows it all, he comes to realize how much he doesn't know, through his journey through Boston’s Sons of Liberty. He violates the Sabbath laws by working on Sunday, suffers an injury to his hand by burning it with silver, and that ends his career as an artisan. He then goes to the home of rich merchant Jonathon Lyte with a silver cup given to him by his dead mother to prove than Lyte is his uncle. The merchant accuses him of having stolen

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