More than anything else Adam Cooper wants his father to consider him a man and respect him. He feels his father treats him like a child and he can’t understand why. He seems to be in a hurry to be on his own because of this. He talks a few times about how he “…would go to sea and learn the trade, since there was no better way to end up with a fine house and wife in silks and laces…”(13) Adam only thinks about the advantages of being considered a man, of being free. To prove that he isn’t a child he signs the muster and joins in battle at Lexington.

America has a similar desire to Adam’s. Many people in the colonies want to be given independence from England. This is why the battles occur, starting at Lexington. The colonists didn’t think t

2. They planned to stand on the common and not “… cock guns or handle triggers…we show ourselves here, plain, firm, and quiet.”(89)

1. Something goes wrong and a bullet is fired and the colonists and the redcoats break out into battle.

1. He wants his father to respect him

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