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Bunker Hill Movement

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In Israel Potter, Herman Melville explains in the excerpt “To his highness the Bunker Hill Movement” (Melville 1) that he cannot copy the life of the real Israel Potter, but in an interpretation that he calls his own, and in which he writes about history, in a fictional twist. Melville begins the story by telling where Israel Potter lives and explain his first place of travel, from Otis to somewhere near Windsor. Later, when traveling, he meets a girl, who he thought was pretty, but then he found out that she was less than he expected her to be, because she was raised under a household who did not have much money as he did. Going along to his adventure, he had traveled farther to the north to find new countries and to claim the land as his own. He went to Connecticut after staying at his newfound land for …show more content…

An example of this harassment was working in the King’s Gardens at Kew, as he felt like he was harassed on the job. This made King George III to discover that he wasn’t a British, but a Yankee from the colonies and the King lashes out at him after discovering that he wasn’t one of his people. However, a few moments later, the King softens up and starts being nice to Potter. In irony, King George III was the mean and cruel king, but in the story, he is portrayed as nice king. After Israel met King George III, he goes to see Squire Woodcock, who is an American. The squire then asks Potter to see Dr. Franklin who is in Paris, France as a quest. When in France, he kicks a man after the man tried to clean his shoes. Dr. Franklin explains that Israel’s actions were “unwise” and that Israel would have got caught if he weren’t clever enough to get out of his own mess, such as kicking the man on the street. Israel explains that Dr. Franklin helped him become a wiser man, by changing his behavior as a whole and promise to bring him back to his homeland after doing what is

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