The Effect of Dumping Tea. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples,” quoted by Mother Teresa. Through reading Johnny Termain by Esther Forbes, one can observe the impact of small tasks on individuals and the influence of war on the world. Does an individual ever contemplate how a war can have an effect on circumstances around the world or how someone's arrogance can make their life change in such a short time? Throughout this story a main character named Johnny Lyte Tremain, a young boy with a high reputation in his silversmithing. In the long run, his haughtiness and pride rules him, and ends up burning his hand (Forbes 40-41). By this happening, he no longer has pride or indignity …show more content…
While he was working for a printing press, he got into a conflict with Merchant Lytes’, when trying to prove that he was Jonathan Lytes’ nephew (Forbes 74-76). He goes to court against them for being accused of stealing a cup. Which is defended by the Sons of Liberty (Forbes 87-92). Johnny and Rab then later work on small tasks that lead them to participate in the Boston Tea Party and even join the war. Throughout this book, it tells an individual the buildup of all the circumstances of war. Boston rebels against the British as they try to take control, in response to the community’s fight for Tax Representation. England sends Tea with minimal taxation. The Sons of Liberty demanded opposition to the shipment, but were unsuccessful (Forbes 116-123). The night of tea shipments are in Rab and Johnny gets a trustworthy set of guys together to dump the tea overboard (Forbes 134-138). Subsequently, England proceeded to close the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea (Forbes 139). British soldiers entered and occupied the city, but the community resisted starvation and the printers risked treason to publish Whig