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Colonial Life
 Jonas Whipple is a tall 27 year old European man 6’ 1” to be exact with blue green eyes with a pale completion and a smile that can charm anyone. Mr. Jonas Whipple has been a successful business man all his life who is known for his extreme relocation and shady behavior. Mr. Jonas Whipple chose to go to the new world after Sir. Walter Roley brought news of tobacco to England. Without much hesitation he decides to sets sail with all his riches to Virginia in hope to build tobacco plantations and take his cut of the tobacco industry. His big day has finally come as he’s walking to the dock suddenly he looks up and sees a majestic wooden boat with it’s mast proudly towering into the sky. Once he boards the ship he realizes that it’s anything but majestic. After a long, nauseating, and tiresome journey his ship docks and he is off to business. He soon finds him running around town trying to find good lots of land to buy. He purchases three lots and over time he soon sees him self run three different plantations and pulling in the money. After mouths of working he takes a break to gather his seances and he realises that he is high at the top of the social ladder. He goes out to town and finds the love of his life Abitha, she is a tall woman with flowing blond hair and deep blue eyes that seem to pull you in. Abitha comes from a humble back round and was raised in Virginia she doesn’t know much about business or tobacco but she is a fun positive person to be around. Soon on one sunny night over a wonderful dinner he proposes and they get married.

 At this point in Mr. Wipple’s life he has grown his tobacco empire and has tuned back his work load and is enjoying life at the top. He owns a large home on one of his plantations and has grown closer to Abith who in the next few year will raise all of his children. Soon he finds himself with 5 boys who are a lot more work than he ever thought. His life was going smoothly until one day he realised that all his indentured servants were set to leave. The solution to this problem was obvious to his get slaves but Abitha did not approve. So he found himself in a prickly situation he has to choose his wife or save money and get slaves. Without much thought and a decision fulled by greed he choose slaves over his own wife but he took his favorite son Eli with him. His wife soon left him and the sad thing is that he would have done it all again. Jonas Wipple is living a happy life but is ready to move on.

Revolution
Research HFC American revolution Source
 * Character is going to experience the militia and war

"The American Revolution - (Home)." //The American Revolution - (Home)// . N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. 

Research Quotes

"The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!" ... **Patrick Henry**

 **Scource:**

"Revolutionary War." //42explore2 Temporary Index Page// . N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quotes: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The war began on April 19, 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “The Colonies were largely unprepared for war. They lacked a central government and had neither an organized army or navy.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Great Britain with its larger and better trained army and navy launched a huge land and sea effort to crush the revolution. However, they had to transport and supply its army across the Atlantic Ocean. As the war continued, the British won many battles but gained little from their victories. The American patriots always formed new forces and continued the fight.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bullets • large army colonies were unprepared for war because they lack the needed recources battels began in 1775

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Scource

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The American Revolutionary War - American War Of Independence." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//The American Revolutionary War - American War Of Independence// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reaserch

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In 1775, revolutionaries had gained control of the thirteen colonial governments. They set up the Second Continental Congress and formed a Continental Army.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “In the beginning of the war, the Thirteen Colonies lacked the needed professional army and navy. Each of the colonies had provided its own defenses through the use of local militia. The militiamen were lightly armed, slightly trained, and do not have the usual uniform”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Militiamen lacked the training and discipline as soldiers but they are more experienced in training and more numerous and could overwhelm any regular troops such as battles of Concord, Bennington and Saratoga, and even the siege of Boston.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bullets Defences were local mallita not as disciplined as solders had the ability to overwhelm Mallita was lightly armed Source: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The Early Militia." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. <http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/militia-early.htm>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Quotes “ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the English Colonies the militia's mission was to defend the settlement and colony in case of attack. Each militiaman was required to drill several times a month and to provide his own arms and equipment. As the threat of attack diminished, English colonial authorities began to use militiamen to augment regular troops in campaigns against French colonial possessions. During the French and Indian War several hundred militia officers gained valuable experience which they later used in the Revolutionary War.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the Revolutionary War that began at Lexington and Concord on April 19,1775, more than 164,000 militiamen from the 13 colonies served under the command of the former Virginia militia colonel, George Washington. Without the militia, American independence could not have been won. While the Continental Army, with militia support, fought the main battles of the Revolutionary War, other militia regiments kept British forces in check by harassing, foraging and raiding parties and limiting the royal troops to the cities.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The British, anticipating an easy victory, sustained many casualties. The American militia proved to the world that civilian volunteers could be molded into trained fighting men, thus forging the high tradition of the National Guard.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On October 19, 1781, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, former militiamen of the Maryland, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delaware <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Virginia Lines were there”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annotations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Melita was to protect from attack required to bring supplies some militia men had previous experience from french Indian war Lexington and concord 1775 more than 164,000 Melita men they did more than just fighting British could afford casualties Virginia lines were in many battles <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">

__ Story Plot __

 * Theme: The protagonist is torn out of his lavish life style when he learns that people won't exempt his currency because it is void if america looses the revolution. This shows an economic impact.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exposition: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time: 1781 <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fredward Whipple (16)  <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> A large grand estate full of loyalist living a lavish lifestyle. In a large Virginian city. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enticing Incident: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Character is living in a large estate with loyalist he is actively supporting the Virginian militia. When he voices his support he is kicked out. He can’t find his way

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Rising action:** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As militias prepare for war they go through his town. He can’t join but he learns of their struggles and his support only grows. All his money is invalid because it is an American currency. He cant find anywhere to stay. He hears that they are in the battle of yorktown and he awaits the news of the outcome from the battle.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Climax:** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He has not herd who won the battle. He goes to make a large purchase hands the money over fearing it may be rejected and in return he hears “do you want your change?” to that he is ecstatic.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Falling Action: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His purchase goes through, he gains friends, and the celebrates the victory.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resolution: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He builds his lifestyle up to its former self.