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Summary Of Chapter 1 The Dinner

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Out of the six chapters, I prefer to write about Chapter One: The Duel and Chapter Two: The Dinner. This book was very intriguing and helped to understand the post-revolutionary America and the lives of the founding brothers and what they went through. Chapter One: The Duel was a well-known duel in American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. July 11, 1804 is the exact date when the duel happened. It presumed to take place in Weehawken, New Jersey. The duel really took place on a ledge above the water near Weehawken. This isolated spot was foolproof for illegal acts like this. Hamilton ends up dying because Burr shooting him in the ribs and ricocheted off into his spine from the distance mortally wounded him in this duel. …show more content…

He clearly accomplished that and also provides the long-term themes of the book, which were bettering relationships and importance of compromise. This episode was essential to American history because this duel was brilliant and it leads to other outcomes. I learned about the lives of Hamilton and Burr and how they engaged in their political careers and how they went through thought processes. This story was very action packed and was enjoyable to read. The outcome of how no one really knew what happened in the duel was baffling. There had to be another way of telling the story of the duel. The facts of what happened didn’t get across to the people. Not one really knew what happened and Burr got blamed for all of …show more content…

The outcome of this event shows now where the capital still is and how they were going to get out of debt. Reading this chapter showed that there was secrets floating around in the government to try and bypass some obstacles. I feel that, that is still happening today in the government. This story was intriguing to read and it brought up ideas of if this didn’t happen in history, where would we be now. This story was enjoyable to read because it demonstrated how the government worked back then and how the politics and government run now. Both stories were interpreted and told very well. All in all it was written well and put into a way where it implied what happened in these events. The first chapter really explained the duel in an accurate way. The act happened so fast, and the description was vivid, it almost seemed like I was there when it happened. The second chapter was a little hard to place myself in. There was a great deal of discussion of conversation and going from one man to another, it sometimes got a little complex on who did

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