Time Enough For Drums Character Analysis

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In the novel, Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi, there are many characters with different traits. During the novel, Jemima Emerson has many character traits that shine through during different events. The novel takes place during colonial times and how the Emersons live through those tough war times is shone. She has two brothers in the war and her mother is also writing in a local newspaper to support the war too. Although most of her immediate family is wanting the Patriots to win some of her family are true Tories. Out of most of her family and friends Jemima is one of the most exciting and outspoken character in the novel. Jemima Emerson has many great characters traits, but three very important ones are brave, loving, and independent.
Jemima Emerson was a very brave young lady throughout most of the novel due to her family and their troubles throughout the novel. Like most people when their loved ones go off to war, they are very worried and scared that they might not see them again; but they have to be brave. Both of Jemima’s brothers, Dan and David, went off to fight in the war, leaving her alone with her mother and father …show more content…
Most of her family and friends are either fighting the war or traveling or are even dead so she must rely on herself to keep everything intact. In the story the shop becomes harder to keep open, but she does not want to close it and she gets very lucky when a family member helps her. In the novel it says,”He sent a wagonload of supplies” which is talking about her grandfather and his son Canoe giving her supplies to help with the store (Rinaldi 207). If it was not for her and some help from Lucy and her grandfather she would have to close the shop. She has no father and no mother and all her siblings are gone so it is mostly just her and she has to do keep the shop open by working down there a lot and trying to keep up with the prices and she is only a young
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