 Okay, so now we're gonna delve a little bit further into our analysis and we're gonna talk about the sourcing and the, you know, the timeframe as to when this happened. So the first thing I want you to figure out is what is the painting trying to tell us. What do you think? What's our painting trying to tell us? Uncle Tom's victory. Victory! He's portraying victory. I love it. Excellent. Give you a little bit more. Do it man. Okay, what's the setting? You know you're not lying on the beach somewhere, are you? And Marissa, last one. Right. Now the word that popped into my mind is I felt like the painter was trying to tell us just how treacherous this voyage truly is. Okay, and in a minute we will look at the painter. Now, when was the painting made? I'm not gonna show you the other part. Write it down if you know it. Did he do this? Did the painter do this the day on Christmas Eve, 1775, 76 or whatever? Did he do it while he was on the boat? No. So how reliable is his depiction of the story? 75 years after. All right, everybody. Write down today's date. Add 75 to 2012. Do you think your memory of today is gonna be as vivid about today? 75 years? No. So this is his impression. These are his. I doubt it. You're right. Okay, so I think you're right. Now, but keep that in mind. How reliable is this painter that he's painting this 75 years after? Does that make a difference? Does it change his message? I wanted them to make connections between the novel and the painting, and and then it was earlier this year that I saw the piece on, you know, what's wrong with this painting. Write this down somewhere in your paper. Letters, diary accounts, reports and items used by the troops. Guess what those are? Primary sources, all those things. The crossing began in the late afternoon. The sign, if it had been out, would have been set by then. Very little light would have been visible outside of a few lanterns with candle light. Okay. Compounding the darkness and certainly indicating that no sun was available is the fact that the diary count after diary count talk of the horrible weather that took place in the company of the crossing. So ice that forms in the Delaware River tends to be large, solid sheets that break into flows. Some of these would have been too large and would have constantly pounded into the side of the boats. Okay, the boats would have taken quite a beating if they rode back and forth. Remember they were going back and forth. One of the favorite comments of folks as they view Mr. Lutz's painting is that they would not be standing in the boat like General Washington was. Raise your hand if you've ever been like in a canoe or a rowboat. What happens if you stand? Yeah, you rock the boat. Exactly. You're gonna fall. I think most folks would agree that standing in the type of rowboat that seen would not be very safe, especially on a flat, fast flowing river. According to descriptions of the painting, future president James Monroe is supposedly the young man holding the flag in the painting. James Monroe was a young man from Virginia when he left school to join the army. He was present at the crossing and subsequent battles. He was a lieutenant. So I wanted them to realize, you know, what you see might not be completely accurate. So I thought they did a good job. They certainly interacted well with each other and I just thought they did a great job.