Cold Mountain Quotes Analysis

Cold Mountain Quote Analysis 1 “Well, Inman said. You’re mighty calm. Especially for a man that most would say has taken the little end of the horn all his life. The blind man said, It might have been worse had I ever been given a glimpse of the world and then lost it. (Frazier 5)” During the course of the conversation between Inman and the blind man their two personalities and views towards life foil each other. While the blind man has grown accustom to his blindness and blames nobody for his misfortune, Inman on the other hand, is astonished by the fact that the blind man doesn’t have anyone to blame for what happened to him. In man can’t help but focus on the negative of the situation, he can’t comprehend why the old man is comfortable
At the time, it was a sentiment Ada took with a great deal of skepticism. All of their Charleston friends had expressed the opinion that the mountain region was a heathenish part of creation… Ada’s informants had claimed the mountaineers to be but one step more advanced in their manner of living than tribes of vagrant savages.” This quote depicts Ada remembering what her father has said the night they arrived at Cold Mountain. It shows the prejudice mentality of the Charleston’s society. It shows Ada’s initial wariness of the mountain society, which later turns to civilized characteristics of the community. Even though the citizens of Charleston describe the mountain people as savages, we later learn that there are some who are humane. Inman encounters both, some of the people he meets are monstrous while others show courage and humanity. The passage shows the ignorance of a closed society.
Cold Mountain Quote Analysis 6 “He had grown so used to seeing death . . . that it seemed no longer dark and mysterious. He feared his heart had been touched by the fire so often he might never make a civilian
Death is no longer a stranger to lives of these men because of their traumatic war experiences, both on the battlefield and on the way home. It shows the fragile state of human life and how easily it can be taken from us. The memories of their comrades’ deaths have been engraved in their mind to point that it becomes strange for them to think about returning to their home and moving on.
Cold Mountain Quote Analysis 7
“Ada believed she would erect towers on the ridge marking the south and north points of the sun’s annual swing. . . . Keeping track of such a thing would place a person, would be a way of saying, You are here, in this one station, now. It would be an answer to the question, Where am I?”
Although Inman hasn’t returned yet, this quote shows Ada trying to answer some of life’s most unanswered questions; she begins to deeply think about her life and the events leading up to who she is and where she is going. The time she spent pondering about these questions will later help her deal future events.
Cold Mountain Quote Analysis 8 “But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell. . . . You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with