As far as I could see while reading, the passage's main purpose is to reflect upon the challenges and hardships endured by Americans under the tyrannic, British rule. I hope that helps.
In the sentence 'By calling every hour, my mother received Jamie's call', the type of error in the sentence is called, Dangling Construction. A dangling clause or sentence, consists of a group of words wherein it does not clearly state what word or words it really describes.
The context of a rhetorical act, made up at a minimum of a rhetor, which is a speaker or writer, with an issue of a speech or a written to a audience.
Answer:
yes always your good sister
God bless you always
A scribe is a person who copies documents, the term was given to people who did this before printing was available like back in old history times.