One day, Lieutenant Stranger finds Johnny there and asks if he'd like to learn jumping. Johnny and Lieutenant Stranger go to Boston Common often to exercise and jump their horses. They are equals there, but indoors the lieutenant sees Johnny as his inferior. Johnny is still delivering papers on Thursdays, and one day he rides Goblin across Boston Common, where British troops are encamped. An officer grabs Goblin's bridle, dumps the papers in the mud, and threatens Johnny with thirty lashes.
The soldier holding Goblin's head is Pumpkin, who also works at the Lytes's stables, and he indicates that Johnny should give Goblin his spurs to escape. Johnny loses control of Goblin, who runs all over Boston before coming to a stop at the Lytes's, where he's used to getting carrots.
Pumpkin is there. He tells Johnny lots of British soldiers are Whigs, and that he himself would like to desert and get a farm. Johnny agrees to help Pumpkin desert in exchange for his musket for Rab. Johnny gives Pumpkin one of the beautiful smocks his mother made. He has never worn them because silversmiths and horse boys don't wear smocks, but he recognizes the love that went into making them.
Johnny gets the musket for Rab, who is very appreciative, and uses his silversmith skills to make a bullet mold and bullets—which, apparently, he can do one-handed. In early April, the mood is changing. Rab is mortally wounded when war breaks out in the battle of Lexington. Johnny is deeply shaken by Rab's death, but he vows to continue the struggle for the human rights for which Rab sacrificed his life. Doctor Warren, an esteemed rebel leader, examines Johnny's hand while Rab's lifeless body lies upstairs.
Johnny Tremain Summary and Analysis of Chapter 9. Paul Revere starts a spy network as promised, and it expands quickly. Johnny rushes off to warn Paul Revere about the raid. Revere rides the sixty miles to Portsmouth himself and warns the rebels that the British are coming. Rab Silsbee - Johnny's best friend. With his quiet, unassuming confidence, Rab becomes Johnny's model and guide as Johnny struggles to find a new identity.
Rab introduces Johnny to the world of revolutionary politics. Although Rab is only sixteen years old , he seems to feel comfortable in the world of high politics. He is trusted by all of the most important Revolutionary War leaders, who rely on him to print the Whig paper called the Boston Observer.
Before, he was a Whig simply because Rab and Mr. Lorne were Whigs , but now he is intellectually convinced. Johnny's Whig allegiance transforms from a personal, emotional attachment to a political and ideological stance.
Ideally, a man gives his allegiance to groups and ideas that he believes in rationally. When we first meet Johnny , he is arrogant, ambitious, slightly cruel, and wholly self-centered. In part, these vicious character traits stem from his prodigious gifts: he is unusually bright and well educated for an apprentice, and he is widely considered the most talented young silversmith in Boston. Cilla asks Johnny to tell them the story of his middle name. Johnny reveals that his given name is Jonathan Lyte Tremain.
Cilla wonders if he is related to the rich merchant, Jonathan Lyte. Lieutenant Stranger is one of the British officers who lives at the Afric Queen, and he attempts to commandeer Goblin but thinks better of it when he realizes how skittish the horse is.
He admires both Goblin and Johnny , though, and teaches Johnny to jump. John M. Richardson admiral John M. Johnny discovers that many of the British regulars are actually Whigs. He dreams of owning his own farm, a dream he has no chance of fulfilling in England. In return, Pumpkin gives Johnny his musket and his old uniform.
Johnny gives the musket to Rab. Pumpkin is caught and executed for desertion by the British. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
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