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      The novel and the movie of Johnny Tremain are pretty mush alike.  Some of the characters are the same such as Johnny, Rab, Paul Revere, Mr. Lyte, Mr. Lapham, Mrs. Lapham, Pricilla, John Hancock, Jehu, Goblin, Doctor Warren, Josiah Quincy, Samuel Adams, Uncle Lorne, and James Otis. The setting is also the same, which is Boston. Also both of them include the Boston Observer.   

      Some events are same in the novel and the movie, such as the Boston Tea party, and the discussion that held before the tea party in the church occurs is in both of them. The event where Johnny goes to meet Mr. Lyte with his cup to claim his kinship, this event occurs in both of them too. Another event that was similar to the movie and the novel is the meeting of the Sons of Liberty that was held in the upstairs of the Boston Observer.

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      The novel and the movie are different in many ways. Some of the characters from the novel are missing in the movie, such as Madge Lapham, Dove, Dusty, Issanah, Ms. Bessie, Pumpkin, Sewall, Lavinia Lyte, and Mr. Tweedie.

      Some events and facts in the novel are very different from the movie. For example in the novel Johnny burns his hand with the molten silver because, Dove hands him the cracked crucible, but in the movie his hands gets burned because of Mrs. Lapham accidentally knocks it down. Also in the movie it seems like Paul Revere lives in the Boston Observer, but in the novel he had his own shop. Another dissimilar event is that in the novel Johnny tells Cilla and Issanah about his name and the cup while sitting beside the sea at nighttime, but in the movie he only tells Cilla while staying in the workshop. Also in the movie Mr. Lyte offers Johnny to have ride with him to Britain, and agrees with the kinship between them, but in the novel, this event never occurred. Goblin is meant to be brown in the movie and white in the novel. Also the secret code for the Sons of Liberty’s meeting is “Owes the Boston Observer eight shillings” in the novel but in the movie instead of eight shillings it was only six. In the novel Johnny goes to Lexington to search for Rab, but in the movie he goes there to participate in the battle. In the novel Cilla works and stays with Miss Lavinia, but in the movie she actually works with the redcoats.