Review Of Boston's Changing Management Johnny Tremain

Hugo Mrs. Sparks ELA 2/29/24 Boston's Changing Management Johnny Tremain is a book written by Esther Forbes about an American colonist named Johnny. He started his journey in Boston as a kid who wanted to learn how to be a silversmith. Soon he became a man who wanted only the best for people's futures and freedom for the country. Before this manhood, he gained his own scar of a crippled hand that had his thumb fused to his finger. Johnny not only had to fight the conflict of holding his mother's secret and unknown family, but also had to fight his physically deformed hand to help others. Johnny's heart of conflict was learning how to be a silversmith. In his apprenticeship he took on the challenge of fixing an almost perfectly forged antique from Mr. Lyte himself. The one who gave

This stressed out Johnny because his deadline was Monday and he had to work on the sabbath, which could get him in jail. In his haste to finish this project, he asks Dove to help and bring a crucible. The crucible that was brought to him was cracked, and when Johnny went to pour the silver into it the whole vessel broke and the molten silver spilled onto Johnny's hand. Johnny got his hand wrapped immediately, but unfortunately it was wrapped wrong. After a few weeks, Johnny took off the wrap and his hand was deformed and webbed together. With Johnny's newly deformed hand, he knew he could not be a silversmith anymore. So he went around Boston looking for a job. He found many that would not take him to his deformed hand, and others that he thought low because it would hurt his pride. At this time America was not liking the taxes from the British, so they were keeping a strict work ethic. Some of the people in Boston wanted the taxing to play itself out and let it run for a few years. Others wanted to take action and fight back against the