In the book Spy! A local teacher Jonah is being hanged by the English. Little did the English know by hanging this teacher it helped them out in many more ways then they thought. They thought by hanging this teacher that it should scare the children enough that the schools would have to close down, but the effect was greater than what they thought. By hanging the teacher it was a neighborhood scare, the schools would have to close and the community would be threatened. The community would also be threatened because they were sending a message. Any person to not follow there orders would be killed.
The term sending the message doesn’t mean electronically texting now a days. It was a term used to scare people, and tell them we mean business or this shall happen. The English weren't trying to punish the town people, they were only scaring them enough to leave their mark, also mark their territory.
They marked their territory because it was almost like hide and seek. They weren't trying to live in the presence, but only the past. They were telling them we have struck this town who's next without getting caught. The scare was enough to try to take over the town.
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