Johnny Tremain By Esther Forbes

Johnny Tremain: Five paragraph Essay In the story Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, the main character Johnny Tremain changes and matures due to events and people in his life. As the story begins Johnny is living as an orphan with the Laphams and works as a silversmith apprentice for Mr. Lapham. He finds his identity here because he is highly regarded by them for his skill. He is very bossy, arrogant, haughty, and doesn’t quite establish who he is yet. He knows his whole life goal is to be a silversmith and with great striving comes a lot of struggle. As the novel draws to a close Johnny realizes that in his past he was very bossy and knows that being overbearing like that is not good. He stops being imperious and figures out who he is: A

Although there is a tough ride he has to go through to fulfill his dream. Johnny is set to work for the Laphams, making a sugar basin for the John Hancock. Johnny wanted this sugar basin to be flawless no matter what. He wants this to be one of his best silversmith pieces. Because Johnny is very talented he is very capable of doing this. And achieving the well-deserved help of Paul Revere, known for being a silversmith around the colonies, makes it much more easier to create it. Having the trait of being very proficient in smithing can help him in the future. Like Johnny, it is very hard to stay modest, when you have a skill like that. He becomes very haughty and a perfectionist. One example is in the house when he controls Dove and Dusty because he does “So much for them,” that he has the right. This trait affects him out of the house too. When he goes to Paul Revere for advice of the sugar basin. Revere, and not to mention his master, Mr. Lapham, says it looks fine, but Johnny says not. He is wasting his own time just for some small edits he does not need to make which is irrelevant. Along with haughty, another trait he has is responsibility. He knows what his goal is and enjoys his job. So Mr. and Mrs. Lapham trust him. Which means that Johnny needs to be responsible. He needs to do his assigned task by the due date. Nothing went wrong in his life. Until one day

Johnny also gets help from characters in the story and becomes more prosperous, during the events that take place in chapters five, six, and seven. One event that changed Johnny a lot through his troubled times in these chapters is when the Johnny couldn’t stay with the Laphams anymore. They lost faith in him because they didn’t want anybody with a crippled hand as the silversmith apprentice. This event caused Johnny to know that life isn’t always easy and that it will be even harder than it was before to become aware of who he was. There are also people who helped him through his worrisome times. One example of that is Rab. Once he was kicked out of the Laphams, he was back on his feet after a fourteen-year-old nice boy named Rab offered him a job selling newspapers at, the local, Boston Observer. For working there, Johnny would receive a place to stay. Along with that, he would acquire his own horse to travel easily while selling the paper. Unfortunately, the only horse they had was a very fearful horse named Goblin. Goblin was hard to ride but because Rab had believed he could ride him Johnny tried to ride him. He got one lesson and after that, he felt less ashamed of his lame hand. He started to use it more often and learned, because of Rab, to not be ashamed of it and face any challenge that comes his way,