Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain, written by Charles Frazier, is a historical fiction novel written in 1977. Charles Frazier writes about the grand journey of a troubled Confederate soldier on his way to the Blue Ridge Mountains. However, Inman, the soldier, is not alone in his journey. Although separated by distance, Inman’s life long lover, Ada, is experiencing a mental journey while transitioning from an urban lifestyle to a now Blue Ridge Mountain girl. Cold Mountain has taken warfare, love, freedom, and self-knowledge to a whole new meaning when two lovers try to escape a somewhat ruined world. According to Mike Childs from the NC Government and Heritage Library, Charles Frazier was born on November 4, 1950 in Asheville, North Carolina. Charles mainly grew up in a part of North Carolina called Andrews. Despite living in a small western town, “Frazier was able to get the name of
Charles wrote Cold Mountain in 1977 with the book focusing on Inman and Ada” (Childs). The real Inman was based off of a story that Charles’ father told him. Charles’ father told Frazier “a story six or seven years ago about an ancestor of [theirs], a great uncle, who was wounded in the Civil War and walked home” (“Cold”). Frazier did not have a lot of back ground on his great grand uncle so this allowed him to make a lot of the story up using what he knew about the Civil War and some imagination. When writing Cold Mountain, Frazier wanted “to create a sense of otherness, of another world, one that the reader doesn't entirely know (“Biography”). The story focuses a lot on isolation in the search for meaning and this can be seen through the characters that Frazier has mentioned. To many, “it was that anomaly in American fiction in