April Morning Fiction to Reality

Author’s Note: This piece is to tell how the book April Morning, is both real to history and just as much contains fake events.

Though the great novel April Morning contains true events from the time period of the Revolutionary War, the book contains even more events that is not accurate to real history. This novel is very entertaining but is not a book that you would want to look for in a history report.

Two men were but a vital importance to the American victory of the Revolutionary War. They rallied troops and helped in signing the Declaration of Independence. The names of these two men were John Hancock and Samuel Adams. One of the many reasons why this book has similarities to what really happened is for the presence of Samuel and John. Being in town they did an event in the book that they did in real life is visit many cities and towns to ensure they were with the Americans and warned them if any British forces were upon them. British soldiers marching to Concord was also just as real, in fact it started the famous battle of Lexington and Concord. The British sent a huge army on to the city of Concord to eliminate the opposing militia and their supplies, and silence them from insulting the British.

In the book and as in the war, ordinary townsmen and farmers would fight professional British soldiers. Young and old men and boys who may not know anything about war, fighting, or properly loading and firing a flint lock musket. These men fought against sophisticated imperial British soldiers who had been trained to kill any man that they had been ordered to kill or vanquish. Although inexperienced, the brave men and boys in April Morning were willing to fight anyone.

Although there many similarities, the book also had many differences from the Revolutionary War. The American forces were made up of men and boys and young boys at that. The youngest recorded person to fight was seventeen, but Adam, the main character is fifteen and three months. Usually parents of that time would send children of that age home to look after other family members, making the book an abstract version of the war. Another difference is that no town had a law that you could “birch” or hit your child with a stick. Though now thought to be inhumane, back then it would be considered acceptable discipline. However, it wouldn't have been acceptable enough to bring to court and be made a law for there were no laws about how to raise your children.

Lastly, in the field of battle no sane leader would send one hundred untrained farmers against one thousand trained soldiers. As in the book one hundred militia men, including the main character Adam, attempt to protect their town from the one thousand to two thousand man British army. In real battle it would be proven to be suicide to fight and be so heavily out numbered and out gunned as I said before in the second paragraph.

April Morning is a book that was never true, but had events and people based in facts from the Revolutionary War. For instance, Samuel Adams and John Hancock were real people and were mentioned in the book.

The Muster Signing

In the novel “April Morning,” Young Adam Cooper is Father’s respect and love, to prove that he is not worthless. Adam tries to have his father at least like him, but can never succeed. He is forced to do things and live his life without his father’s approval and sometimes without hid father knowing. Then in one attempt to show his father that he is worth something, he signs the muster to be a part of the militia and fight the on oncoming British army. This act will turn to be a fight for his life and is undoubtedly the climax to the novel.
The Climax of this story is definitely, where the word comes out that the British are coming and Adam signs up to be a militiaman. He will be training to use a musket to kill a real person. Rather than shooting pigeons which he did with his old musket. He will have more respect from his father now that he said; “Yesterday he was a boy, tonight he’s not.” Just about, everything about the book has changed because of Adam signing the book. Adam signed the book caused by the events of his father neglecting him.
The events that caused Adam to sign and show is father that he is not worthless are that his father birched him, which he was too old for. In addition, that he wanted to go to the committee meeting but was turned down by his father for not being man enough. Even though we was only a few months away from sixteen. He signed the muster partly so he could show his father that he was a man.

My Son Adam Cooper

My Son Adam Cooper

Authors Note: “April Morning”, Young 16-year-old Adam cooper struggles to gain love from his father. While later trying to defend his town from the red coats. However, with the love and toughness his father feels for him, how would the book turn out having the water-fetching scene being told from his father Moses Cooper’s point of view?
One way that Moses Cooper’s point of view could influence the reader’s interpretation of the book is that he really loves his son Adam to pieces. Even though he is tough on him all he wants to do is have him have and education so he can go to college. Adam, the original main character in the book describes his father Moses as a bad, pushy, unloving person when actually it is the exact opposite of what he thinks. What Adam does not know is that he really is loved by his father he just does not see it, and the reader should know it.
The reader would feel a lot differently not just for Moses but Adam too.One way that Moses Cooper’s point of view could influence the reader’s interpretation of the book is that he really loves his son Adam to pieces. Even though he is tough on him all he wants to do is have him have and education so he can go to college. Adam, the original main character in the book describes his father Moses as a bad, pushy, unloving person when actually it is the exact opposite of what he thinks. What Adam does not know is that he really is loved by his father he just does not see it, and the reader should know it.
The reader would feel a lot differently not just for Moses but Adam too. If the novel were to be set in Moses’ point of view, he would seem like a good person and he would seem like he would be doing the right thing by being a little hard on Adam. In addition, to the reader Adam would seem like the sort of bad person because his father seems to be doing the right thing. Also, the events that go on in the novel would be the exact opposite of what regularly happen in the water fetching seen we would know what his dad was up to during that.
In conclusion, the novel “April Morning” would have been told much differently had Moses Cooper told it. The events would be different and Adam would have been pictured as the bad person.