Lack Of Education In Johnny Tremain By Esther Forbes

“A man could stand up” That is a major quote that showed that if people wanted rights that they think they deserve they should stand up for it. Johnny Tremain is a Blacksmith who burned his hand making a sugar basin and once he did that he started looking for a job which he is capable of and he found a job to deliver papers. Then he met a boy named Rab who was a son of liberty so he started to help them. The revolutionary war was when America was fighting for independence from Great Britain because they were doing things that not all of the colonies liked. Because of King George, the colonies fought for independence and the events that lead up to the revolutionary war was in the book Johnny Tremain.

Social class plays a major role in a society. A person’s social class affects his/her education, respectability, and ability to get a job. Most people in America’s society are born into their social class, but it is easier now to move up than it was in 16th century England. Although there are some slight differences in these two social classes, the social classes of 16th century England are shockingly similar to the social classes of modern day America.

In most if not all cases, the class you are born into will determine how you will be raised, and who you will grow up to become. Whether you can speak up for yourself, if you are humble with what you have or you have a more hectic schedule or not, it all plays into what class you are from. No two childhoods are equal and Annette Lareau in her book, Unequal Childhoods explains why this is the case. I will be examining chapters four, five, and seven. These chapters examine poor and working children and teenagers and how their childhoods differ and relate to each other based on the class they were born in whether that be lower class to the poor. What can be learned from examining these three kids, Harold McAllister, Katie Brindle, and Tyrec Taylor is the advantages and disadvantages of having a childhood in the class of the poor or working class.

A father smiling down at his son; a teacher learning from his pupil; a soldier gazing up to his country’s flag. Or a woman masking her face with makeup; a man boasting endlessly of a talent; a child mocking another’s impediment. All textbook illustrations of pride. Nevertheless, the first trio is of outward pride—pride not of one’s own accomplishment, but the achievements of something or someone else. Moreover, the second trio consists of an inner pride—a vain, arrogant, conceited, egotistic, narcissistic feeling. Another crucial aspect of different prides is Jane Austen’s Pride vs. Vanity. She says, “A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Although “pride goeth before the fall”, pride, being outward or being competent to ourselves, is a healthy feeling unless provoked into vanity and narcissism.

Esther Forbes published Johnny Tremain in 1943, when the United States was in the middle of World War II, in which the United States and the United Kingdom ,yet another way to refer to Great Britain, were allies. But that's okay because Forbes makes it clear that England is not the real enemy but the real enemy is any government that threatens the liberty of its people or just doesn't stand up for them. So, in a roundabout way, Johnny Tremain is partly about the importance of workman's comp laws. Johnny Tremain, the book and the movie, were very different because of the events and the characters; and similar because of the plot, and timeline. Johnny Tremain, an orphan is apprenticed to silversmith Emphraim Lapham. When we meet Johnny, his entire identity is wrapped up in being a fantastic silversmith. He's career driven since he is only an apprentice, but he's running his master's shop. Johnny's natural arrogance will always be his downfall, but he slowly learns to control it, along with his naturally quick temper. From believing that he knows it all, he comes to realize how much he doesn't know, through his journey through Boston’s Sons of Liberty.

Class can restrict someone from taking a path they want to pursue either because they are being discouraged from trying it or because they don’t have the means to get themselves there. The article in the Washington Post titled “Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard at college,” outlines why kids from higher classes are more likely to get elite jobs. They say “Basically, if we think of economic inequality as a sporting competition, elite parents give their kids a leg up, not only by being able to afford the equipment necessary to play but also by teaching them the rules of the game and giving them insider tips on how to win.” I believe that this is a good illustration of ways that members of the working class are at a disadvantage.

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes takes place before and during the Revolutionary War and has many interesting characters like Johnny and Priscilla.

I jumped into the t-bird car and rushed to the rumble because I can never miss a fight. If you know me I was one of the best fighters of all time, to this day I have never lost a fight. We got to the rumble and here come the socs in there blue mustang, they hop out of there car and it was on. Everyone started fighting each other so I jumped in and started hitting people, the socs got scared and they forfeited and the greasers won the fight. ran to there car and . We jumped in the T-bird and were gone. We got to the hospital and johnny was laying there on his last breathe. We told him we won the fight and he smiled and was gone. I was so confused because I thought that it was all just a dream. Johnny was the only person that I loved out of everyone.

The only true bias in this film is the suggestion that only kids of upper classes families were trying to rebel and commit juvenile acts. Towards the opening of the movie one of the main characters parents arrive at the police station to pick him up, the father is dressed in a dinner suit and it is learned that they had to leave an affluent dinner party at the ‘country club' to get their son. As seen in our text and through films of this genre, it is known that youth from all social classes were lazy, promiscuous and of a delinquent mentality.

Although Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes and No Promises in the Wind are different in many ways, they are both about the hardships young people endured in life. No Promises in the Wind also conveys a message of how people, especially children, suffered in the Great Depression (1929 - 1939).

Also people were treated in a way based off of their economic class. Bruno a young boy lived with his family and they were wealthy. They had many people that worked for them, who were in a lower class. “[...] his mother has always told him that he was to treat Maria, respectfully and not just imitate the way father spoke to her. ‘You get your hands off my things” (Boyne 1).

The lower class is usually thought out to be mistreated and worthless. In this country, it almost seems fine for most people to beat or bully the lower class due to their lack of resources. On top of that, they are also subject to discrimination because of their ethnicity, religion, gender, or age. When someone goes to school with ragged clothes, they are often looked at negatively and talked about. We see a

Many young girls and women, such as in Ruined living in third world countries, certainly have the capacity and yearning to learn, and acquire skills necessary for survival, but are often restrained from opportunities that education can provide, due to poverty and war. For example, in the play, Sophie, a young aspiring student whose dreams was shattered due to the agonizing violence of war and then taken to work instead for Mama, a brothel owner. At first, Mama is astounded that a bright, “petit bureaucrat in the

Another huge difference between the upper, and lower, class was that the children of the lower class families had to work. Naturally, poor families could not afford clothes, food and all the other necessities their children needed. Therefore, many children had to work in factories to support their family. In David Copperfield (99’), David had to work for a while in a factory during his stay at the Micawber families, as Mr. Micawber was jailed due to him not paying rent. From what we could see, David’s experience in the factory was a horrible one, where the air was terrible and work conditions incredibly dangerous for children. Why this was so common can be a natural result of where society does not support the working class, resulting in an endless spiral of misfortune. A child is born into a poor family. This child then has to work in a factory to support his family. These events resulting

Classism was and still is a huge issue in the world today.So as demonstrated in the book “Sold” by Patricia McCormick there are other girls and people whose class decides the path that they take in life.The way of being affected by class has given the feeling that “no matter what they do in life they will never be able to succeed and show the others that nothing is impossible”.Also, what these people do for money has made the people of a higher class use them for really bad things,some of them no one ever dream of doing.“But today she hangs her head like the paddy plants and says, "Maybe tomorrow." “(Patricia McCormick,23).They get tired of their lives and eventually break down not able to take it anymore.