Johnny Tremain was 14 years old, with a passion for silversmithing. One day, after having an argument with his half sisters Cilla and Isannah, he went to Paul Reveres silversmithing place. He wanted to make Paul revere proud, so I think he hasted to make silver. The crucible of silver broke, and as Johnny ran to catch it, his hand fell into an oven, scalding it badly. I felt sorry for him, having a bad burn. I would have cried if that happened to me. Now, he could not be a silversmith. He hid his burn in his pocket, only taking it out if someone really important asked him to. There was one boy that did not really notice his hand, all he said that it was a really recent burn. Johnny realized that that was the first time someone talked about his hand that way. Johnny wandered through the streets, looking for a job. His troubles led him to John Hancock, who lent him a purse full of what Johnny thought was copper, but was actually silver. First, he went to a restaurant in Boston, and stuffed himself. Then, he went and bought new boots, because his old ones were broken and cracked. He bought a picture book for his sisters. At last he found a job. He rode a horse named Goblin through the streets delivering letters and papers. Johnny kept half the money he earned for himself, the rest he gave away. Soon, he kept nothing for himself, and just gave it all away. He put Cilla in charge of the silver, but she put it in a place where someone might find it. Sure enough, an angry mob wandered near it. Cilla raced back toward the silver, and just managed to gather up every piece before the mob reached it. They went to the Lytes for dinner of bread and salad. One of the Lytes asked Johnny which silver cup was his, but Johnny just guessed. Only a silversmith could have told them apart. Then the Lytes left, to go fight in the war, the revolutionary war. Soon after, Johnny met a new friend, Rab. He was a young man, about Johnny's age , who knew how to fire a musket. All the musket makers in the colonies worked on cannons, cannon balls, and bayonets in secret. They did not want the British to know that the colonists have guns to fight. Then the redcoats started making their march to Lexington and Concord. Johnny warned Paul Revere, who at night, rode to warn everyone that the British were coming, especially Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who the British wanted to capture. Soon after, General Gage singed that in the British were to be separated into two groups. One were the headstrong, brave men, ready to fight. The other group were the light armed men, who did the scouting work. One of the groups fired the first shot at Lexington, which was later called "The shot heard round the world". All Johnny had to eat was stale bread and a sliver of cheese once a day. He was beginning to feel sick. He kept thinking about Rab's words, "A man can stand up". A new song was made, started by the British to taunt the rebels. Unforutantly for them, the colonist added more words and made it their own, and it went something like this. "Father and I went down to camp along with Captain Gooding, and there we saw the men and boys as thick as hasty pudding. Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy. Mind the music and the step, and let the girls be handy", and so on. In one battle, Johnny's friend Rab was wounded. He died the next day, and Johnny was so upset. Before he died though, Johnny heard Rab say these last words. "A man can stand up". Those words would stick with Johnny for the rest of his life.
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