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In the article “The Shoemaker and the Revolution,� Alfred F. Young analyzes and demonstrates with secondary sources of the events leading to the Revolution. The author’s purpose of the article is to narrate the experience of the ordinary Boston shoemaker, George Robert Twelves Hewes, during the time before the Revolution. He writes the article to show how the causes of the Revolution impacted the lives of ordinary citizens such as Hewes and the transformation he goes through.
The article mainly regards the Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and the tarring and feathering of John Malcom in relations to the change from deference to defiance towards Britain, a common citizen into active participant, and a brave warlike patriot. The contentions of this interpretive essay were that certain events causing the revolution could change a person’s political and social view drastically. In a particular event, George Hewes repairs a shoe for John Hancock and is later invited to his home on......

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