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Johnny Tremain
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Johhny Tremain has been a staple of elementary school reading lists for years. Like many
Newberry Medal
winners, it tells the story of a boy who changes into a man (age 16) while performing countless heroic deeds and facing innumerable sorrows set against the background of social turmoil. Trite? Perhaps, and yet it is still a book that discusses many important issues such as
religion
,
patriotism
,
friendship
and
love
. It is certainly a children's book, and as such it is a wonderful book. Johnny Tremain begins life as an indentured
Silversmith
, working under a crachety master who is also a strict
Christian
. The master's wife, however, is a more worldly woman (remember, this IS a children's book) who is more interested in profit than in God's salvation. Johnny turns out to be a precocious silversmith who does better work than his aging master, and enjoys it. The first major conflict of the book comes when a very expensive order is due and the only way to finish it is to work on
Sunday
. Without the master's knowledge, Johnny decides to work on
Sunday
and in doing so,
burn
s his hand horribly. The remainder of book is spent with Johhny trying to find his place in a world that he thought he knew so well. As a patriotic
citizen
of
Boston
at the time of the
American Revolution
he is thrown in and out of conflicts with the
British
, he falls in and out of
love
, and he discovers what standing up for a belief truly entails.
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