Johnny Tremain

[jesa67]

I just got finished reading this book and I have to say it is really good. Unlike the movie, which really stinks. it takes place in the colonial era and is reallygood at giving the perspective of the war from a kid's eyes. Whether it's the civil or revoloutionary war, i dunno, i've got a short attention span. all i know is that it takes place in the late 1600's or 1700's. PLZ COMMENT!
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[London]

Civil or Revolutionary? Well. I can tell you right now that it wasn't the 1600s.
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[loveliesbleeding]

Since when did the Civil war take place mainly in Boston? or the late 1700's?
I mean, c'mon the COLONIAL ERA, could you have atleast gotten and inkling from the pretty pictures on the outside of the cover... anything?
I cannot honestly say that I think you read the book, it's just too hard to believe you would not know the time period. And you saw the movie too!

Things to live by:
1. If they have three cornered hats on and Tomas Jefferson, and there is no refrence to Grant, Lee, Lincon, state's rights, agriculture VS. industy or slavery you can safely assume it's isn't the Civil War.
2. In the 1600's we were not fighting the English!

[London]

Well I didn't think that he/she read it either (and neither have I, but I didn't claim to have done so) but now I think that you're just someone who wants to use his/her recently acquired Civil War knowledge to impress people most probably younger than you. Tomas Jefferson, Lincon and industy, indeed.

[quote]Since when did the Civil war take place mainly in Boston?[/quote]
Even if there weren't any famous battles in Boston, it doesn't mean that that part of the country would be totally unaffected.

[quote]2. In the 1600's we were not fighting the English![/quote]
Well, obviously.

[size=9]I feel like such a brat for making this post.[/size]
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[loveliesbleeding]

[quote]Well I didn't think that he/she read it either (and neither have I, but I didn't claim to have done so) but now I think that you're just someone who wants to use his/her recently acquired Civil War knowledge to impress people most probably younger than you. Tomas Jefferson, Lincon and industy, indeed. [/quote]

How in the world was I trying to impress people with Civil War knowledge? This is the book section, kid; no one really goes here let alone thinks to themselves: "Gee, she really knows the basic themes of the Civil War, I shall worship her!"
I was simply pointing out the obvious, because anyone who even read her post could figure out the time period...

Also, try not to insult my level of education when you have no grasp on what it actually is, or what I have knowledge of! There is nothing more annoying than people obnoxiously sticking up for others and then leaving themselves completely open to being ridiculed. That said I wont go on a tirade about how you should not have made said generalization and about how you really, really, need to learn how to choose your battles.

[quote]Even if there weren't any famous battles in Boston, it doesn't mean that that part of the country would be totally unaffected. [/quote]

There were no battles, famous or otherwise, in Boston during the Civil War and I was referring to that. The Civil War, being a civil war, would obviously include the entire country.
For the most part the North "looked down" on the South for being mostly agricultural and more-or-less into older customs and from the Southern point of view, people from the North were [i]personas non gratas. [/i]

[quote]Well, obviously. [/quote]

That [i]is[/i] the point!

Anyway, I'm glad you at least admit to not reading the book, though I find it hard to believe jesa67 posed a topic about something she didn't read...