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In the novel Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes the main character Jonathan Lye
Tremain is an apprentice to an old silversmith Mr. Lapham. In a tragic accident Johnny
melts his thumb to his index finger and he can no longer use his right hand for
sislversmithing. Then Johnny changes his attitude from a young aragonite boy to a wise
man.
For example he learned to control his temper. He did this by counting to ten when
he was angered. The first time he tried this, is when Sam Adams' slave Suky throws a pan
of dishwater out the front door without looking. She hit Johnny with the water when he
was going up the walk way to the house. Instead of yelling at her and telling her what her
thought a bought her race and master he counted to ten and found it had worked. Suky
cleaned him off and gave him an apple pie to eat while she was cleaning his jacket. Johnny
also met Sam Adams while he was in his kitchen. Controlling his temper really paid off.
The second way that Johnny changed was the way he treated others, he treated
them with respect and courtesy. This is the new way he treated Cilla and Isannah. When
he was young, he used to in insult the two younger sisters. But after been from them for
a long time he realized that he wanted them as friends. Johnny used to call Cilla a skinny,
pale faced, gobblely eyed child, but now he sees her as young and beautiful, and begins to
like her. He made a promise to the sisters that every Thursday and Sunday, while
delivering newspapers, he would meet them at the water pump to talk. They would meet
at the water pump because Mrs. Lampham had them go get the drinking water every
afternoon. Of course Johnny could not keep his promise for long his work was very
important.
A third way Johnny changed was by spying on for his country as they fought the
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