Time Enough For Drums Character Analysis

Have you heard about the book Time Enough For Drums? The author Ann Rinaldi writes a romantic novel about a 16 year old girl’s older and younger brother’s going into war and how it affected her life. The girl from this novel, Jemima Emerson, is the main character and goes through some difficult times throughout the novel. These difficulties improved her intelligence, her fearlessness, and being strong through hard times.
Jemima Emerson had many qualities about her, but one quality that popped out to me is being intelligent. Throughout the novel she was very intelligent such as when she kept the pemmican that Canoe gave her. Every time she went to Grandfather Emerson's house, Canoe would give Jemima some pemmican, a dried buffalo meat with dried cranberries, and Jemima would keep it upstairs in a small chest in her room. This plays a big role in the upcoming chapters when the Hessians invade the Emerson's house and tells Lucy and Jemima to go upstairs and stay there. They did and ate the pemmican Jemima kept in her chest when they were hungry. The foreshadowing from the book, “Someday, if the British ever came to Trenton, I would have it, for it was an emergency ration. And then, whatever else happened, we wouldn't be hungry.”(Rinaldi 64) shows how intelligent Jemima is.
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At the end of the novel Jemima’s father, James, dies while going outside to deliver dry food stuffs and runs into General Dickinson's militia. He kills James and we don’t know why until the end of the novel. It turns out that Jemima's mom writing in the Pennsylvania Gazette was the cause of father getting killed.He was found with pinned copies of the letter to him. Soon after Mr.Moore asks Jemima is she would like to stay with them for a while with Jemima’s mom. She refuses to and lives with Lucy, their house slave, in her house. This obviously shows how she is strong by living without any parent in the house and being the mistress of the