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¶ … Patch: The Famous Jumper
As one of America's first entertainer-daredevils, Sam Patch's popularity amongst his fellow working class citizens illustrates how this segment of society yearned for a hero with whom they could identify. Paul E. Johnson's Sam Patch: The Famous Jumper depicts Patch himself as an effortless, and sometimes drunken, self-promoter who turned a childhood love of heights and excitement into an attention-grabbing, if short-lived, career. Patch's ingenuity, showmanship, and bravery allowed him to connect with his fans on a deeply symbolic level, given that his own personal struggles and working-class background served to emphasize the notion that any American could achieve success on their own terms so long as they possessed the fearlessness to go after what it was they most desired.
Sam Patch's early years played a pivotal role in his eventual success as a daredevil, primarily because his parents' troubled work history brought them from the countryside into the city, where they worked in a series of mills and factories. Johnson notes the difficulty of...
If the Patch family had remained on the farm, it is unlikely that Sam Patch would have had the opportunity to scale the heights of factory walls, ship masts, and local dams. His childhood spent working in a cotton mill also brought him into contact with the young people who would later make up much of his fan base as he came to recognize how his feats of daring were able to distract other mill employees from the drudgery of their daily work.
The feats of bravery that Sam Patch undertook in Patterson, New Jersey are representative of the connection he continued to make between the social and political conditions of the era and his own public persona. Although Johnson was not able to entirely determine exactly how invested Patch was in raising the consciousnesses of the working class, his first few public events managed…
Works Cited
Johnson, Paul E. Sam Patch: The Famous Jumper. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
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