Johnny Tremain Short Story

At the beginning of the story called “Johnny Tremain” Johnny’s mother passes away, and he is then sent away. He was sent away to work for a silversmith. While working for the silversmith, Johnny also worked with two different people, Dusty and Dove. They both worked extremely slow, Johnny on the other hand worked very hard, and sometimes even had to ‘boss them around.’
Eventually, Dove got upset at Johnny, and decided to hand Johnny a broken crucible. While Johnny melted the silver, the crucible broke and the metal went all over his hand. Due to it being the day of Sabbath, Johnny could not go a doctor since working on Sabbath was illegal, and they surely would get arrested for working. In lieu, Cilla was sent out to get a local medicine person. Johnny developed scar tissue that caused his thumb to become worthless. Johnny was then told that since he was unable to use both hands properly, he needed to leave the silversmith, and go out …show more content…
Mr. Lorne, who was Johnny’s boss, was nice enough and feed Johnny, and also gave him a place to sleep. Johnny started to take newspapers to cities such as Cambridge and Charlestown. Since he was going all about delivering papers, he acquired knowledge about what was going on with the colonies, such as their politics. The British had became to send shipments of tea to the colonies, and the tea was taxed heavily per pound of tea. The concept of no taxation without representation was a very popular idea with the colonies, so they were angry that they had to pay taxes for the british crown, but they had no representation within the house of lords. An idea to revolt was to board ships that contained the tea, and to throw the tea overboard. British law forbid any items to be returned, but the people in america did not was the tea to be unloaded, so the colonist at the time deemed the plan as the only