Finding Goals And Techniques In Johnny Tremain By Esther Forbes

The book Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes is about a fourteen-year-old boy with an entertaining story. The book gives you a variety of lens to think and write about as Jonny’s story unfolds. In the book and in this long write there are three bigger, more in depth lens that stood out more. Those topics are author's craft, character traits and, characters relationship.

The first lens in this long write is author’s craft by finding goals and techniques in the book. The first place I saw this was when the author used the technique of description to accomplish the goal of introducing the characters. The evidence supporting that is when Johnny said “It was he who owned this great wharf, the ware houses, many of the ships tied up along it. He owned

He owned the Lapham's house. He was the richest man in New England.” (pg. 18) This connects because it describes all of John Hancock's belongings to prove that he’s rich which is a trait. Another place that stood out was when Esther used the technique of tone to accomplish the goal of building the mood. The evidence supporting that is, “suddenly Isannah’s delighted cries change to hysterical screams. ‘Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me with that dreadful hand! Johnny stopped he stood like stone, hs hand thrust back into his pocket.” (pg. 78) This connects because it has Isannah use a different tone by yelling and Johnny who gets sad and that later changes the mood of the story. The last place there was a significant author craft move was when the author used the technique of description to accomplish the goal of building suspense. The evidence

In the book Johnny Tremain there are a lot of character relationships that happen as the story unfolds. The first character relationship is between Johnny and Mr. Lapham his master. At the beginning, Johnny and Mr. Lapham have a superb relationship and Mr. Lapham respects him saying “give god thanks for giving you such good artist hands.” (pg. 13) There relationship soon crumbles because of the fact Johnny hurt his hand, that shows that Mr. Lapham didn’t really have that good of a relationship with Jonny. The next character that had a relationship with Johnny is Rab. Rab and Johnny have the best relationship in the book because Rab is the only character that believes in Johnny. Rab shows this when Johnny says “what will I do”, Rab said to him “You’ve got twenty days to practice log splitting and then you’ll open chests”. This shows that they have a good relationship because even when Johnny is doubtful Rab believes that he can do it. The last person with a relationship with Johnny is Isannah. Isannah and Johnny have a bad relationship because of Johnny’s hand being the way it is. In the book, Isannah says to Johnny “Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me with that dreadful hand.” This shows that Johnny and Isannah have a bad relationship because she get’s disturbed by his