A Ride into Morning
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| A Ride into Morning | |
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Great Episodes |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Harcourt Books |
| Publication date | 1991 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-15-204683-6 |
| Followed by | A Break with Charity |
A Ride into Morning is a historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is part of the Great Episodes series. It is told in first-person narration.
[edit] Plot summary
In the midst of the American Revolution, fourteen-year-old Mary Cooper moves in with her twenty-two-year-old cousin, Tempe Wick, and Tempe's elderly mother, Mary Wick, after Mary's Tory family discovered that she was participating in the Patriot cause. Her brother, Abraham is also a Patriot soldier. Mary's cousin lives near where the American soldiers have camped for the winter. Two of Mary's young friends, David Hamilton Morris and Jeremiah Levering, are stationed here too. Mary has fallen in love with General Anthony Wayne.
The Patriot soldiers and all those who live on farms near the magazine are now facing an incredibly cold winter. A mutiny is imminent. Tempe befriends Billy Bowzar, a Patriot soldier and probably leader of the mutiny. Tempe lends Bowzar her beloved white horse. Mary learns of Bowzar's plans and discovers that Tempe is growing hesitant as well. The cousins stop fighting so they can keep Aunt Mary safe, a plan that involves keeping Tempe's horse, Colonel, in the house overnight. The mutiny is unsuccessful and Mary realizes that her love for General Wayne was a silly little crush. Lieutenant Enos Reeves, a colleague of Wayne's that Mary suspected of being in love with Tempe, was actually in love with her, and Mary discovers she feels the same way.
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Mary Cooper a 14-year-old girl is sent to her cousin's house because her family is Tory, and she is a Patriot, like her brother Abraham who went to fight as a soldier for U.S. independence. When she arrives, she has problems with her cousin Tempe. She has 2 friends, Jeremiah Levering who is 15 years old, and David Hamilton who is 12. She learns that Bowzar is planning mutiny. When she is returning home, she meets Enos Reeves, who is the only man who treats her like an adult. And there, he tells her to tell her cousin Tempe to stay away from Bowzar. There are only two men who make her blush when she meets them, Enos and Wayne. But she thinks Enos is in love with her cousin, and Wayne is married and has 2 children, and has affairs with another lady. When she returns home, Wayne arrives, because her cousin and aunt had invited him for supper. There he tells her that she reminds him of her daughter, and she feels awful. The next day, she meets her cousin Henry, Tempe's brother, who everybody thinks of as a lunatic. He asks her to tell Tempe to stay away from British in camp, Bowzar, and there she discovers that he is not a lunatic, but is acting that way, because he has in his conscience when he run away in a battle, and many soldiers died because of that, and he disappointed his father and himself. He is rum running, but he is not helping the British as everybody thinks, he is selling them the rum at high prices, and he is selling most of the rum to the Americans at a very low price. When Mary met Enos, he told her that in Jan. the first it would be Wayne's birthday, and that he would love a meat pie, which she knows how to cook and she makes it delicious. Her cousin tells Bowzar that she will give him her horse. Because he told her that if she didn't he would tell everybody about the rum running of her brother, Henry. But Henry and her sister meet, because he has a plan so that she can keep her horse, and nothing bad will happen. In the day of the mutiny, Enos had been invited to have supper with them, and while they were having dinner, he had to leave, because the soldiers were doing something that they did not know what it was. But it was the mutiny that had started. Tempe has to leave, so that the plan can be done. And while she is out Enos comes back, to tell them to stay at home and keep everything closed. When he is leaving he tells her that he wants to say something, but that there is no time, and that he will come back to say what he needed. She thinks that he wants to tell Tempe that he loves her, and she offers to give her cousin a message, but he only kisses her forehead like her brother Abraham should have done, but the anxiousness in his eyes say something else, but she assures herself that he is confused because of the mutiny that took him by surprise. When he leaves, she can't wait to see what's going on, even though she shouldn't leave her aunt alone, she leaves her dog taking care of her aunt. When she leaves the house, she walks and walks until she arrives the magazine, where she sees an unforgivable image, where Wayne arrives and facer Bowzar, the leader of the Committee that organized the mutiny, and where none of the soldiers is able to kill him, because they admire him, and he stays there when he knows that nothing can be done. When she is standing there, watching the scene, her friend David and Jeremiah arrive, and say good-bye, because they are going to leave the next day early. And when she tells them that she will have no friends, they tell her that she will have Enos who has liked her since she arrived. Jeremiah only nodded (in my opinion, he likes her, but it's for you to judge) when they are leaving, she hugs them, and Jeremiah blushes, but David seems pleased. When she returns home she finds her aunt sitting on the floor and the dog by her side, she worries, but nothing bad happened, so she goes to the woods to see if Tempe is coming back, and she sees Tempe and her horse coming back. As the plan said they would have to hide the horse in a room in the house, when the men who are following her give up after not finding the horse, but they stay the night taking care of the horse in the room of the house. The next day, everything seems to be all right, and when Mary goes to wash her face. She hears a man's voice at the kitchen, and knows it's Enos, so she washes her hair and face, and puts some clean clothes. When she arrives to the kitchen, Enos seems delighted. In that moment Tempe starts to realize that she is now and adult. After breakfast, when Enos is about to leave, Tempe asks her cousin, Mary, to accompany him outside. She is grateful, and when they go outside, Enos asks her about her love for Wayne, and she decides that it was just that she admired him, but that she LOVES Enos the same way that he loves her, so they kiss each other and say good-bye. During the time Mary has staid with her cousin and aunt, Tempe has threaten her that she will tell her that she will send Mary back to her family, but there Tempe tells Mary that she wants her to stay, and also Tempe tells her mother that Henry is not dead, because she had told her that he is dead after learning that he is a "lunatic" Ann Rinaldi, if you ever read this, please contact me, I admire your writing style and I've read most of your books, and I wish to talk to you. You can contact me by sending e-mail to: l_izebel1294@hotmail.com
