Johnny Tremain: Five paragraph Essay In the story Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, the main character Johnny Tremain changes and matures due to events and people in his life. As the story begins Johnny is living as an orphan with the Laphams and works as a silversmith apprentice for Mr. Lapham. He finds his identity here because he is highly regarded by them for his skill. He is very bossy, arrogant, haughty, and doesn’t quite establish who he is yet. He knows his whole life goal is to be a silversmith and with great striving comes a lot of struggle. As the novel draws to a close Johnny realizes that in his past he was very bossy and knows that being overbearing like that is not good. He stops being imperious and figures out who he is: A …show more content…
Although there is a tough ride he has to go through to fulfill his dream. Johnny is set to work for the Laphams, making a sugar basin for the John Hancock. Johnny wanted this sugar basin to be flawless no matter what. He wants this to be one of his best silversmith pieces. Because Johnny is very talented he is very capable of doing this. And achieving the well-deserved help of Paul Revere, known for being a silversmith around the colonies, makes it much more easier to create it. Having the trait of being very proficient in smithing can help him in the future. Like Johnny, it is very hard to stay modest, when you have a skill like that. He becomes very haughty and a perfectionist. One example is in the house when he controls Dove and Dusty because he does “So much for them,” that he has the right. This trait affects him out of the house too. When he goes to Paul Revere for advice of the sugar basin. Revere, and not to mention his master, Mr. Lapham, says it looks fine, but Johnny says not. He is wasting his own time just for some small edits he does not need to make which is irrelevant. Along with haughty, another trait he has is responsibility. He knows what his goal is and enjoys his job. So Mr. and Mrs. Lapham trust him. Which means that Johnny needs to be responsible. He needs to do his assigned task by the due date. Nothing went wrong in his life. Until one day …show more content…
Johnny also gets help from characters in the story and becomes more prosperous, during the events that take place in chapters five, six, and seven. One event that changed Johnny a lot through his troubled times in these chapters is when the Johnny couldn’t stay with the Laphams anymore. They lost faith in him because they didn’t want anybody with a crippled hand as the silversmith apprentice. This event caused Johnny to know that life isn’t always easy and that it will be even harder than it was before to become aware of who he was. There are also people who helped him through his worrisome times. One example of that is Rab. Once he was kicked out of the Laphams, he was back on his feet after a fourteen-year-old nice boy named Rab offered him a job selling newspapers at, the local, Boston Observer. For working there, Johnny would receive a place to stay. Along with that, he would acquire his own horse to travel easily while selling the paper. Unfortunately, the only horse they had was a very fearful horse named Goblin. Goblin was hard to ride but because Rab had believed he could ride him Johnny tried to ride him. He got one lesson and after that, he felt less ashamed of his lame hand. He started to use it more often and learned, because of Rab, to not be ashamed of it and face any challenge that comes his way,
Pride is an aspect of life that has the ability to either improve or impede on one’s life. It is a reality that many despise. trans……… In the captivating novel, Johnny Tremain, a young boy struggles with the idea of pride. Gifted in every way imaginable, especially silver smithing, the young boy, Johnny, let’s it go to his head. This results in conceited actions, haughty remarks, and an overall arrogance which illuminates from the young boy’s body.
The easiest way to explain this is that pride, like cancer slowly grows and you never see it coming till it is too late. It slowly pushes away everything that makes you feel happy, but by keeping your pride you lose all you hold dear to your heart. This quote really explains johnny's pride and it’s hazardous consequences. As we read we see the consequences of his pride.
Now that I have talked and shown how Johnny was a part of the shooting of Mr. Hirsh, I am going to talk about his overall
Also, Johnny was only the one who serves as a vent to his parents’ anger. Days pass and years pass, Johnny was horribly scared of violence. According to the saying of parents are the best teach- ers to children, the violence was just like a seed which was kept in Johnny’s heart and grew gradual- ly day by day. That was all
The book and movie Johnny Tremain, both share many similarities and differences. In the beginning of the book, John Hancock gives Johnny Tremain a duty to make him a sugar basin. But in the movie, Johnny’s long lost relative, Merchant Lyte gives him the responsibility to make him it for him. The other difference is that Isannah, Dove, and Dusty is not recall in the movie as well. They do not cover anything with the laziness of Dove, Dusty, and the sick young girl, Isannah.
He realizes that there is more in life than just the Socs and greasers. Johnny shows that to pony when he says, “ I don’t mind dying now… It’s worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more mine…” (pg.178)
Johnny probably had one of the worst lives of the greasers, yet he still managed to stay optimistic even after being beaten on an almost daily basis. Johnny would also stand up for people even after being isolated for most his life, as shown when Dallas was harassing Cherry and Marcia. Finally the most loyal of them all, even on his deathbed he stuck by his friends and only allowed them to vist and not his horrible mother that ignored him for most his life. After an abusive childhood most people would give up but Johnny cade stood amongst the Greasers with pride, not
The character Johnny grows in major ways throughout The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Johnny was a greaser, His best friend was Ponyboy, the main character. Johnny was a dynamic character, he contributed a lot to the main theme. Johnny had bad parents and committed murder. Soon after his bad acts, he became a hero.
At the beginning of the novel, Johnny lacked confidence and self-esteem. At times he thought about attempting suicide. S.E. Hinton describes Johnny as, “A little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and lost his crowd of strangers” (11). This is because Johnny 's parents are abusive: his mother verbally and his father
“A true hero isn’t measured by the size of their strength, but by the strength of their heart.” A hero is a person that does something to help or they can also save someone 's life. One example of, being a hero is Darry because he takes care of Ponyboy and Sodapop. Another example, of being a hero is Johnny when he saved Ponyboy and the little kids. A further example, of being a hero is Ponyboy when he also saved the little kid’s life and when he wanted to take the blame for killing Bob.
Johnny is always kind-hearted in his intentions, despite how it turns out in the end. To illustrate his true virtue, when he becomes worried that his children have not seen enough of the world, he decides to “take them for a rowboat ride at Canarsie and do a little deep-sea fishing” (Smith 221). The trip ends up failing, as he falls in the water and one of the children becomes sick, but he truly intends for them to have an exciting new experience. If he is ill-meaning, he wouldn’t have even gone through the trouble of planning the trip. Similarly, when trying to relieve Francie of the discomfort she felt after her attempted attack, Johnny ends up chemically burning her leg.
After Johnny had killed Bob, and they ran away, Johnny says something to Ponyboy in the church that surprises him. After Johnny left to get supplies, he says, “We’re gonna cut our hair, and your gonna bleach yours.” (71) Johnny saying this, shows that he is starting to take action after what had happened at the park. It shows that reality is hitting Johnny, and this actually makes him slightly tougher in a way. Johnny, being a shy person usually doesn’t take action to solve the problem at han, but by doing this, it shows he is less soft and more hardy than we thought.
A clear sign of the gangs influence on Johnny was when he decided to prevent the Soc’s from drowning Ponyboy and defending himself instead of letting the Socs beat them up and have them possibly drown Ponyboy. More specifically, after finally fighting back and killing Bob, he says to Ponyboy “‘I killed him’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy”’(Hinton 56). Here the author is explaining how shocked Johnny was once he killed the Soc.
You mainly see this in his actions for when he is talking to his brothers. You can see this early on in the book when he is talking about Sodapop’s old horse and wanting to get it back, “I kept saving my money for a year, thinking that someday I could buy Mickey Mouse back for Soda,” (pg. 48). This shows how much he cares for his brother and that he wants him to be happy. He also shows how much he cares about Johnny, especially when they are hiding out in the church, “ ‘Johnny,’ I said tiredly, ‘you can’t wash your hair in this freezing weather. You’ll get a cold,’ ”
In the novel Johnny Tremain, we follow the life of a young boy named Johnny. He lives in Boston in the midst of the revolution during the 1770’s. This book was published by Esther Forbes in 1943, at the height of World War II. The novel Johnny Tremain is about a young boy named Johnny living in colonial Boston during the 1770s. This book portrays Johnny’s life during the beginning of the revolution.