Summary Of Johnny Tremain

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So it starts off with a man walking into a shop and he says I would like the teapot to this set remade it was damaged by a careless maid. The store owner said why don’t you bring it back to Revere he could fix it and the other man said “sir, look at the mark you made it about thirty years ago”. Then the man said I cannot do this anymore and the other man said well then I will bring it back to Revere. Then Johnny tremain said I can do it and the man looked at him and just laughed. Also in the beginning Johnny showed a friend a cup that said J-L-T, it stood for Jonny light Tremain. The lights were so rich. This meant Johnny was born into money but instead of using it he wanted to work hard to earn money. He told one of his friends this and this shows what kind of person …show more content…

Johnny also was the person to alarm the Boston tea party. When he blew his whistle the men began ready to throw the tea off the ship. This made the British furious. Then the Sons of Liberty were getting ready to go to Lexington and they told him to stay in Boston because he only had one hand and he was extremely young. So all the members who stayed back their goal was to find out what the british nexts moves. Johnny found out a bunch of information about the british that helped out the Sons of Liberty. Then the Sons of Liberty had their last full meeting and they started to talk about how war is inevitable. Then Johnny hopped on a horse and rode straight towards Lexington. It was hard for him because he had redcoats chasing and shooting towards him basically his whole way there. When Johnny got there the british arrived about ten minutes later. It was like David against Goliath. Both groups looked straight into each other. It was dead silent then a bullet came out of nowhere flying through the air. Then the british started firing. War had then begun. Then the Sons of Liberty kept on moving and they got them on the run. The British had

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