Q. What are some important ideas that Johnny Tremain includes?
Johnny Tremain Themes
- Humility. Early in the novel, Johnny is excessively proud of his skills as a silversmith.
- Hard work and professionalism. Forbes uses Johnny Tremain to address questions of how people should do work.
- Finding one’s place in life.
- Integrity.
- Patience.
- Self-sacrifice.
- Violence.
Q. What is the main theme of Johnny Tremain?
A theme adds a layer to a story, and Esther Forbes’s Johnny Tremain benefits from having three important major themes that are woven throughout the book’s events. Humility, coming of age, and tolerance of disabilities are the main themes in this novel.
Q. How does Johnny Tremain change throughout the book?
How does Johnny change over the course of the novel? As Johnny ages, he loses his pride and becomes more modest about his skills. He is willing to do any sort of work if it is helpful, even if it is slightly embarrassing––like his assignment to pretend he is a child so he can deliver a message to Mr. Newman.
Q. How does Johnny Tremain end?
At the end of the novel, Johnny is standing on Lexington Green waiting for Doctor Warren to prepare his surgical instruments for the operation that will repair Johnny’s hand at least enough for him to be able to fire the musket Rab left him.
Q. Which hand did Johnny Tremain burn?
right hand
Q. Who does Cilla marry in Johnny Tremain?
July 1773: Cilla is the fourteen-year-old granddaughter of the silversmith Ephraim Lapham, and engaged to Johnny Tremain.
Q. How old is Cilla in Johnny Tremain?
fourteen-year-old
Q. How old is Dorcas in Johnny Tremain?
sixteen-year-old
Q. What happened to pumpkin in Johnny Tremain?
Johnny gives Pumpkin a farmer’s smock sewn by his mother before she died and arranges to have him smuggled out of Boston. Johnny gives the musket to Rab. Pumpkin is caught and executed for desertion by the British.
Q. What is Johnny Tremain occupation?
What is Johnny Tremain’s occupation? Silversmith apprentice.
Q. Who offers Johnny a job as a silversmith apprentice?
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain is the gifted apprentice of Ephraim Lapham, a silversmith in Revolutionary-era Boston.
Q. Why does Johnny return to Mr Lyte after the trial?
Johnny is out of options because he has no Job, so he uses the cup his mother gave him which she said to use when there was no one that would help him. So he goes to Mr. Lyte to prove that he is related to him.
Q. What does Sam Adams hire Johnny?
As a result, Adams treats Johnny as an equal and hires him to ride for the important Boston Committee of Correspondence, which will later become the Continental Congress. Johnny runs into Cilla and Isannah at the water pump one day.
Q. How did parliament punish Boston for her tea party?
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Q. What does it mean to take or leave a Silsbee?
What does it mean to “take or leave” a Silsbee? They’re good men, but never talk about anything/ can frustrate you, but if you can get past that, you’ll really appreciate them p. 120.
Q. How did Johnny stop Lieutenant stranger from commandeering Goblin?
What did Johnny do to prevent Goblin from being commandeered? When Lt. Stranger was riding Goblin, Johnny helped the washerwoman hang the sheets. When Goblin came near, they let the sheets billow in the air and it frightened the horse.
