Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument

A monument is a place or thing that denotes the persistency of a cloud of symbolic significance over an event that occurred in the past. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was erected on the 14th of November 1908 by the sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and the architect Stanford White. It is an affable monument located in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York that commemorates the lives of 11,500 Americans who were imprisoned by the British during the American Revolution and died egregiously because of the diseases and grievous conditions on the ships. This monument, as well as many others whom great respect is bestowed upon, is a monument that conceives much sympathy and empathy to the unfortunate deaths of many American martyrs in the past.…

Collier and Collier truly convey these injustices in the novel. For example, cattle thieves (posing as Patriots) kidnapped Mr. Meeker. Ironically, Mr. Meeker ends up dying on a British prison ship, and he support the Tory cause (Collier and Collier 127 + 164). Frankly, his death was not necessary since his presence had no effect on the outcome of the war. Sam’s death represents how the events of war do not always turn out as expected. Sam ends up being hanged and falsely accused of stealing his…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…