The sentence should read "Tom's Independence Day holiday wasn't spent in California."
The rules are
1<span> Capitalize the first word of the sentence
2 </span><span>Capitalize people's names and titles used with their names
3</span><span> Use an apostrophe to correctly indicate singular or plural possession
4</span><span> Capitalize names of days of the week, months, and holidays
5 </span><span>Use an apostrophe in contractions to indicate the missing letter(s)
6 </span><span>Capitalize the names of particular places
7 </span><span>Use correct end punctuation for the type of sentence</span>
third person i would guess but there is not enough information about what you are reading to show really what point of the story is in.
Sonnet means poem and idk about the other thing...im srry if i couldnt help you