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Adam Cooper’s desire to become a man and America’s struggle for independence are closely related in April Morning. Adam desperately wants to be considered a man. America wants to have independence. Through the course of the novel there encounters change the way they think. They discover certain responsibilities, obligations, and consequences that come along with their desires. Their ideas may change by the end of the story but there is no turning back. More than anything else Adam Cooper wants his father to consider him a man and respect him. He feels his father treats him like a child and he can’t understand why. He seems to be in a hurry to be on his own because of this. He talks a few times about how he “…would go to sea and learn the trade, since there was no better way to end up with a fine house and wife in silks and laces…”(13) Adam only thinks about the advantages of being considered a man, of being free. To prove that he isn’t a child he signs the muster and joins in battle at Lexington. America has a similar desire to Adam’s. Many people in the colonies want to be given independence from England. This is why the battles occur, starting at Lexington. The colonists didn’t think t