Durkee+Kelsi

Durkee Kelsi
=**Unit 1: Up and About**=

**4.1** The fact that Johnny works while Mr. Lapham sleeps and Dove and Dusty go swimming shows that Johnny is a very determined worker. He is not vulnerable to distractions.
====**6.1** The crest of the Lytes is a crest with a picture of an eye rising up from the sea. From it rays of light stream out. It conveys feelings of sadness and respect because it reminds them of the crest carved on the slate gravestones of the Lyte family on Copp's Hill.====

=**Unit 2: The Pride of Your Power**=

**1.1** Johnny turns down Paul Revere's offer because he is loyal to the Lapham family.
====**3.1** When Johnny walked towards the furnace to pour the silver,the crucible began to crumble. He jumped toward it with his hand outstretched. Suddenly, his feet went out from under him. His hand came down on the top of the furnace and was burned.==== ====**5.1** Because of the accident, Mrs. Lapham began to humor Johnny. She had him sleep in his own room in his own bed. In the mornings, when Mrs. Lapham would come down to start breakfast, she always began by getting him up. In the shop, Dove and Dusty had begun to be more valuable than Johnny. He had to start doing smaller tasks.====

=**Unit 3: An Earth of Brass**= ====**1.1** Rab tells Johnny that he will be able to get work with his crippled hand, but it will be unskilled work that he won't want. Johnny admires Rab because ease and confidence flows out of him. Rab was the first person to whom Johnny had confided his own story.==== ====**3.1** The title "Earth of Brass" relates to Johnny's life because he can no longer be a silversmith because of his burned hand. Brass is not as valuable as silver, and Johnny's skills are no longer as valuable as when he had the ability to be a silversmith.====

= = =**Unit 4: The Rising Eye**=

**1.1** Merchant Lyte is demanding, short-tempered, stern, and to the point.
====**5.2** The court decision favors Johnny because the judge saw the young, precious Cilla and Isannah and immediately dismissed the case. The Justice said there was not the slightest evidence that the accused had stolen the cup.====

= = =Unit 5: The Boston Observer= ====**2.1** Johnny's responsibilities as a messenger are he has to ride a horse and deliver the message accurately. He is an important link to the Whigs communication system because there were no phones in his day, so the only way people who were a great distance away could communicate was by messengers.====

**3&4.2** People tend to live up to the expectations of others because people feel pressure to keep their reputation.

 * 3&4.3** Rab told Johnny not to let other people's opinions affect him.

**3&4.4**The Observers' Club is a treasonous organization because they plan attacks against England.
=Unit 6: Salt-Water Tea=

**5.1** Johnny must hold an axe in his left hand, and steady it with his bad right hand.
=Unit 7: The Fiddler's Bill=

**3.2** Johnny has changed because he knows how it feels to be bullied. Ever since he got burned and has a bad right hand, people tease him. So, he sticks up for Dove when he is getting bullied.
====**4.1** Johnny's feelings toward Mrs. Lapham have changed. Her bantering and bickering had then seemed small-minded to him; now he was enough older to how valiantly she had fought for those under her care.====

**5.1** Sam Adams' spy in the Lyte household is Mrs. Bessie.
=Unit 8: A World to Come= ====**1.1** The mob is pursuing the Lytes because the Sons of Liberty had planned to tar and feather the Lytes at their country home. However, they were not able to because Mrs. Bessie, Sam Adams' spy, warns the Lytes ahead of time because she cannot bear to see them treated roughly by the Whigs. ====

**2.1** The Bible reveals that Johnny is Merchant Lyte's grandnephew. Johnny's grandfather, Roger Lyte, had been the younger brother of Jonathan Lyte. Johnny himself was the merchant's grandnephew.
====**2.2** When Johnny says "This is the end. The end of one thing-the beginning of something else." he is referring to the Lytes. The Lytes won't return because there is going to be a civil war.First folks like them get touted out of Milton-then out of Boston. And the cards are going to be reshuffled; dealt again.====

**5.1** James Otis proposes that he is fighting for that no frightened lost child ever is sent out as a refugee from his own country because of race or religion..
=**Unit 9: The Scarlet Deluge**=

**3.2** The Minute Men are preparing for the war by drilling for coming battles before it was yet the hour to get to their chores.
====**5.1** When Johnny look into "the face of death"" he is looking into the cold, cruel eyes of the firing squad. Johnny had always been bold enough, taking about what came, never fearing a fight, and there was much fighting among the boys along the wharves. He had never once doubted his physical courage. But now he did.====

=Unit 10: "Disperse, Ye Rebels"= ====**1.1** The patriots believe the British are beginning to move against the rebels because the British soldiers were forming a queue about a grindstone sharpening their bayonets and making other preparations. Their actions had been noticed by at least a dozen patriots. All that day the British transports had been readying their landing boats.==== ====**1.2** If the British go out over the Neck, Revere will show one lantern from the spire of Christ's Church. If in the boats - two. The warning will help the patriots because it will let them know the British are planning an attack.==== ====**2.1** Rab decides to leave Boston because he was certain the time for fighting between the Patriots and the British would come before the week was out and he intended to be in it. Johnny took this news badly. He could not endure that Rab should desert him.====

=Unit 11: Yankee Doodle=

**3.1** The British are unable to punish the opposition leaders because the they were all gone.
====**4.1** When Lavinia first saw Johnny, she noticed one thing - the way his hair turns down upon his forehead. The little peak. It was just like how his mother's used to look. Lavinia also noticed that Johnny walked like his mother, light and wild - like a panther.==== ====**5.1** When Johnny calls himself "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war." in his discussion with Mrs. Bessie, he means that he acts like a boy - carefree and fun - during his everyday life. He is also a man who has the right to risk his life for the things he thinks are worth it.==== = = =Unit 12: A Man Can Stand Up=

**1.1** Johnny had on a British uniform that said he was a prive in the Fourth Regiment - the King's own - so that he could fit in with the way the British soldiers look.

 * 2.1** Johnny is amazed that the rebels have defeated the British he had come to believe that the British soldiers were invincible.
 * 3.1** As Johnny stands on Lexington Green, he is thinking about how it was there the men had stood; there upon the Green they had formed a thin pathetic line, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. There they had died.
 * 5.1** Rab dies because he bled so much that the doctor could not stop it. Johnny nodded at the news. He had moved off into a strange lonely world where nothing could seem real - not even Rab's death.
 * 5.2** Johnny doesn't feel ashamed of his hand anymore because he realizes that he is just lucky to be alive after the war and all the people who were killed in it. He has accomplished so much in his life since he was burned, and he doesn't want it to hold him back anymore.