The Action Packed Night By Paul Reveree Analysis

Decent Essays
The main idea of this book is to show that no one will stay with you forever. The author wants us readers to understand that one time in our life we will be alone, and that you are not gonna be with your loved ones forever. This poem describes the action-packed night of April 18, 1775, the famous ride of Paul Revere. It starts in Boston, where Paul and a friend are talking about the British army. They think the soldiers are going to leave Boston that night, but they aren't sure whether they will go by land or sea.
Paul has a plan to warn people in the countryside about the British coming, but he needs to know which direction they are taking. So the two men agree on a secret code: Paul's friend will signal him by hanging one lantern in the church

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Kathryn Lanford CHARACTER ANALYSIS Rush Limbaugh Rush Revere; Liberty; Freedom; Tommy; and Cam Lexington; Concord; and Bunker Hill, Illinois (1775) Does going back in time to see a past American hero in action make it easier to learn history? Rush Limbaugh seems to think so in his fiction story “Rush Revere and the American Revolution.” Throughout the book, lovable Cam escapes a bully at the Marine Corps Base where he lives by going on magical time travel adventures with his friends Tommy, Freedom, Mr. Revere, and of course the time traveling- talking horse Liberty.…

    • 950 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    David Hackett Fischer’s book Paul Revere’s Ride, is the historical recollection of Paul’s midnight ride. The book revolves around mainly the actions and reactions of British parliament, British Troops stationed in America, and the colonists of America. Fischer describes, the trials of which General Thomas Gage endured while stationed in America, along with the constant struggle of keeping the peace in Boston. Through the first few chapters we learn about both Revere and Gage’s past, their personal lives, as well as insight to their thoughts about the issues in the American colonies. From this we see two men, who are quite different, that become pivoted against each other due to circumstance.…

    • 495 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Paul Revere is an American Revolutionary hero. He was born to Apollos Rivoire (who later changed his name to Paul Revere) and Deborah Hitchborn on January 1st of 1734. Revere was an apprentice to his father, a goldsmith until his father died in 1754. Since Revere was considered too young to take over the family business, he joined the French and Indian War (to sustain and pay for his family), he was soon appointed as an officer. When he returned, Revere married Sarah Orne.…

    • 427 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Listen my children, and you shall hear”, Paul Revere and the American Revolution by Ethel Ames is about Paul Revere's journey to stop the red coats from invading. Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow is about the ride of what Paul Revere had. How accurate was Paul Revere's poem by Franklin Johnson was about how historically accurate Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow was. The poem Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow had many historically inaccuracies. Three ways he got the poem was historically wrong is they used the lanterns for the wrong thing and there we're 3 people in the event, and they did not tell us how the ride ends.…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Meanwhile the looming threat from the British presses on. At the same time, half of our men are being slaughtered by the illness and fatigue that has slowly made it’s way through the camp. With so many reasons to leave I don’t understand how anyone can stay hopeful for victory In the end our hope has turn sour and the driving pace for the fight for independence has subsided to a crawl. The melancholy tune of death and defeat has lulled me into a sleep that is hopeless to fight against to wake…

    • 1323 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Overall, this poem is trying to show the way that children and young men were used to fight, and were marched to there death for the enjoyment and views that were held by old men in the…

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Paul Revere’s Ride is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere’s ride, “although with significant inaccuracies”. This is one of the most commonly read and loved poems in American history. It is about an American patriot, but it is told in a way that Longfellow choses to write it, not always recording what really happened. The biggest criticism is that it gives Paul Revere all the credit for making the ride alone, while three riders collectively performed it. “LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,…

    • 1494 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime. That is the Holocaust. Many people survived to tell their stories of suffering and torture. One of the most prominent survivors was Elie Wiesel. The book Night was written by Elie Wiesel.…

    • 1036 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    At the beginning of night Eliezer described himself as someone who believes profoundly. I believe this to be the truth. But as we get into chapters 2-3 elie’s strong believes start to disappear. Then somewhere in chapters 4 and 5 elie’s believes in god and in all his trust that god will save ho disappear. “Why did i prey?…

    • 432 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When someone is tortured and traumatized for long periods of time, their minds and bodies are scarred forever. The Holocaust ruined the lives of millions of Jewish people, including the life of a young man named Elie Wiesel. Wiesel was only a young teenager when the Nazis invaded their town and took him, his family, and his friends to Auschwitz. He witnessed many horrible events that no one should ever have to see. Many years after his liberation, he wrote Night, a book about his experience in the camps.…

    • 1271 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Note and notice signposts 1.tough questions-"why, but why would I bless him (Wiesel 67)? " 2. Contrast and contradict- stops talking about the Holocaust and talks about the future which is happy. ( Wiesel 53) 3. Again and again- they give warnings about what's going to happen ( Wiesel 27)".…

    • 941 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Poem is a piece of writing which express feelings, emotions and ideas using descriptive figurative languages. However, poems are not dependable as a secondary source and if it is written about 100 years later than when the event actually happened. Likewise, the poem cannot be trustworthy if it contains different facts from the primary source written by the person who experienced that moment and who was actually there. Furthermore, as poems use figurative languages that exaggerate things, it is not a good resource. These lead up to the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is a secondary source written as a third person point of view.…

    • 949 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In Afghanistan war, Phil Williams’ poem “Reality in Afghanistan” , the author describes that he felt really bad for the soldier’s parents in which their sons will never come back home after their military service. In other words, parents are promised that their son will come back safe and sound at home after their military service even if there are chances that they do not come back. Also, Alex Cockers, a Royal Marine Commando from 2005-2009 explain in his poem “Tom” how much he miss his friend Tom by saying : “ ’ll remember Tom forever. And raise a glass in his name. A soldier to the death.…

    • 2091 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly”. Traumatic events can make someone change or completely lose their faith. This is what happens to Eliezer(Elie) this is what happens when he and his father are sent Auschwitz, then Buna two concentration camps the Nazis used in the Holocaust. Below are quotes describing how Elie’s faith had changed through the course of his stay at the concentration camps.…

    • 491 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Elie Wiesel, in his book the Night, described the horrific events of the Holocaust that occurred during the 20th century by writing about his experience in the German concentration camp, Auschwitz. By telling his story, it was possible for people to learn specifically what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust and identify the brutality of the German Nazi soldiers. However, despite these facts, Elie Wiesel at first, swore not to talk anything about the Holocaust. He had to bear so much pain and he was not ready to tell the world the terror of Holocaust yet. When he finally decided to talk about his experience in the Holocaust he said, “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for…

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays