Adam Cooper

Title “Take them there. I don’t want him to lie in the darkness tonight.” (Fast 195) Adam Cooper is told by his mother Sarah Cooper to take candles to the church so his father will not lie there in the dark. This book took place in Lexington Massachusetts on April 19th 1775, the red coats marching in a solid column through towns destroying them. The three minor characters in this book are Sarah Cooper, Granny, and Ruth Simmons. “Adam, he loves you. You’re his son.” (Fast 23) Sarah is a little confused because Adam tells Sarah that Moses doesn’t like him. Adam gets so mad when his father is so hard on him. Adam just cannot stand it, when there is conflict between him and his father. Sarah cannot say much about it because this is before women had a say so, because the men were in charge. “I don’t want him to lie in the darkness tonight.” (Fast 195) After Sarah’s husband Moses died in the war she was a nervous wreck. She had no idea on what she was going to do because the man of the house was at the church in a casket. After Adam returned to his house after the war there were a lot of
After all the shooting was over Granny ran down to where they were standing because she seen Moses being killed. She got all the way down there and the redcoats were standing in the general area of the dead bodies, and Granny got up to Moses body and just dropped to her knees. “Granny ran after them, calling them thieves and cutthroats.” (Fast 194) Granny was so angry at the redcoats when she seen that her last son of five was dead. She tried to run them down and beat them up. She was yelling at the top of her lungs that they were thieves, and that they could not destroy towns because they had no reason to destroy them. Once the guards calmed Granny down, she was very upset and disappointed because her last son had just