Johnny Lyte Tremain Essay

The Changing of People and Countries Johnny Lyte Tremain is a young boy in the story who loses his mother at a young age and ends up living with the laphams, along with his two younger brothers Dusty, and Dove. The three brothers do not like each other very much because Dove is jealous of Johnny’s skills and his craftsmanship in silversmithing. Johnny also bullies Dusty and Dove because they are both not as good as Johnny and he makes fun of them for not being as good as him. Johnny is still young when everything happens and he does not know what to do because of his young age. Johnny was a young boy who had the dream of being a silversmith. As he gets older, Johnny’s mother sacrifices her items to get Johnny the things he needs for silversmithing

Hancock that he needed to finish but had hit the deadline to finish it for Mr. Hancock. While working on the piece for Mr. Hancock, Johnny ends up slipping and dumping some of the hot metal and he puts his hand in it and ends up severely burning himself. This causes Johnny to lose his job because he can no longer use his hand, in which he needs to have both hands for silversmithing. After so long of not having a job and living with the laphams, they eventually kick him out because they can no longer support him. While all of these things are happening to Johnny, America is going through a rough time as well. During this time, America was under the control of the British. The British had been collecting money from the Americans through taxes. The Americans did not like the idea of being taxed and they started to rebel against the British because of this. America then decided that they did not want to be under the control of the British, so they decided to rebel by dumping the tea into the harbor to protest against them. After the Americans protested, the British did not like this so they decided they were going to cut off all the supplies to