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AMERICAN REVOLUTION Growing up as an ordinary young boy, Joseph Plumb Martin's urge to join the military was triggered by the then overwhelming Revolutionary War that took place in America. The war intensified in 1776, which created the desire for Plumb Martin and other boys’ of his time to join a Rebel Infantry. However, differently from other boys, Martin took clear record of the trials and harsh experiences he underwent during his long military service. In his thrilling and humorous memoir, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Martin eventfully narrates the process of joining the Continental Army at a young age and his rise through the ranks to a private. Some of the experiences Martin narrates includes the bitter cold they undergone as they lacked coats, hunger, and illnesses that would lead to deaths, long marches during harsh training and a phobia towards battles where people would lose their lives. This memoir has gone through various publications to acquire the titles Private Yankee Doodle, and the latest edition titled the Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier (Martin 2001). Martin wrote the memoir in 1830, half a century later after the American Revolutionary War. The memoir is narrated in a great romantic style of how events unfolded in the revolutionary war as it highlights the issues of racism and empiricism as some of the most dominant values of the 19th century. Chapter one of the memoir analyses Martin's important influences towards the memoir. The second chapter focuses on Martin's distrust towards authority. This chapter also explores how the rank and file related with their senior commanders during the war. Chapter three analyses racism as the major
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