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- Adam Cooper is the main character and first-person narrator, who grows up from childhood to manhood suddenly during the first battles of the American Revolution. He begins in conflict with his father, who still sees him as a child and does nothing but correct his 15-year-old son.
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April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast, about Adam Cooper's coming of age during the Battle of Lexington. [1] One critic notes that in the beginning of the novel he is "dressed down by his father, Moses, misunderstood by his mother, Sarah, and plagued by his brother, Levi."
- Howard Fast
- 1961
Adam Cooper He begins in conflict with his father, who still sees him as a child and does nothing but correct his 15-year-old son. Adam begins to see his father differently as he stands by him on the Lexington Common and sees him get shot down by the British.
April Morning begins with 15-year-old protagonist Adam Cooper doing chores in Lexington, Massachusetts, on his parents’ farm. He argues and clashes with his entire family, including his brother Levi, his mother Sarah, Granny, and above all, his father Moses.
Adam Cooper is the 15-year-old protagonist of April Morning, and the reader sees everything through his first-person narration. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, on the family farm, and he is argumentative with his mother and Granny, disliking in particular the tenets of Christianity.
April Morning is the story of about thirty-six hours in the life of fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper, a farm boy in Massachusetts living a placid life with his domineering father, Moses, and his sweet mother, sharp grandmother, and typical-pain little brother. (His grandmother was terrific.)
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- 1961
- Howard Fast
- Mass Market Paperback
Adam Cooper is the main character of the novel “April Morning” by Howard Fast. At 15 years old, Adam Cooper is a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the son of Moses and Sarah Cooper, is the grandson of Granny, and is the older brother of Levi Cooper.
April Morning covers a span of perhaps 36 crucial hours in the life of Adam Cooper, a 15-year-old boy who, along with his family, is caught up in the drama surrounding the Battle of Lexington. The novel de-scribes not only the battle itself but also the chain of events immediately leading up to it, creating a mood of mounting tension.
