Blog 1
The main Character’s in the book “Lincoln’s Grave Robbers” is Allie Boyd and Benjamin Boyd. Benjamin Boyd was one of the nation’s top engravers of counterfeit plates in the late 1800s. Allie Boyd was also a counterfeiter and wife to Ben Boyd. Both of these two individuals didn’t care about the law at all because of all the people they knew and also because they had lots of money counterfeited money. Boyd was the best counterfeiter in the late 1800s but he was caught a lot of times in the act of trying to make the money because the government was keeping a close eye on him. Allie Boyd was a counterfeiter the was also like a mole she knew lots of things that people wanted to know.
Since these two individuals were at the top of the crime empire at this time period they were always in trouble, by cops, the government or even people that did crime themselves. Ben Boyd and Allie Boyd were very smart sometimes cops didn’t know the difference of the counterfeited money and the real money. These two were also very discreet it was hard to get evidence on them about them committing crimes. And that is my gathered intel about Ben Boyd and Allie Boyd.
Blog 2
The conflict in the book “Lincoln’s Grave Robbers” is external. The problems that the two main characters (Ben Boyd and Allie Boyd) have is with other people “The Law”. They are always being watched by cops because of their crime that they committed in the past. Ben Boyd and Allie boyd always need help but they can’t pay with real money they need to counterfeit their money. They also have trouble with buying things since they mostly have counterfeited money.
The don’t have any problems that go in their minds but there is a certain type of people they might had have trouble with, gangsters. If they ever pay gangsters with counterfeit money and the gangsters found out they would've been dead. In this story Ben Boyd and Allie Boyd get into a lot of trouble. For example in the beginning of the story Ben Boyd was being taken to jail. And that is the conflict it the book “Lincoln’s Grave Robbers”.
Blog 3
The message in the story is that making fake money is not a thing people should do and he showed us this by letting us know what happen to other people that did it. The author put this lesson in a way of a history book telling how what happen to the people that did it. He also showed us in the perspective of the people that did it. He showed how it was in the perspective of the other people in the story. And the author also added real facts in the book to show that he is not just making it up.
In the book the facts are based on the people that made fake money. He also got information of how was their life before and after so he could show how the people change. The books time period is in the 1860s so the author got information on what where things called. He added facts of how it was in the 1860s also for people can better understand. And is the theme in the book “Lincoln’s Grave Robbers”.
