You wake up early on Christmas morning to rush to your parents room to wake them up for the time of present opening. There is a small, cuboid present shaped just like the Mario video game cartage you wanted carefully placed under the tree. It looked so similar that you were convinced that it had to be the game. Your parents finally wake up, and you rush downstairs to rip open the wrapping paper/box, just to find that, to your dismay, it is a 10th edition Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary from your grandma. That feeling you have on Christmas is how many people feel when they read the article “Paul Revere Truth Versus Legend,” and find that they have been lied to about Paul Revere. The poem “Paul Revere's Midnight Ride” and the article “Paul Revere…show more content… In the article, it states that “Revere was able to evade capture and make it successfully to Medford” (9). The poem depicted Paul valiantly riding into Medford town, and the article confirmed that information with this quote. So the information is accurate in that part of the poem? Another time when the poem was historically accurate was when Paul was looking for the British militia, he saw “where the River widens to meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats on the rising tide, like a bridge of boats” (54). This quote shows Paul seeing the British soldiers coming. Historically, the British did come from the other side of the Charles River, where the River widens to meet the bay, according to the article. The article about Paul Revere and Henry Longellow's poem has conflicting information when it comes to the details of what he did on April 18th, 1775. The poem states that when he reached Concord town, “through the night went his cry of alarm” (120). This is incorrect because in the article, it says that he was on a secret mission and didn't want to draw attention to his
