This book focuses on the Jansan family, specifically their son Todd. Todd Jansan is only 10 and doesn’t know much about the war except that his Uncle Clyde is off fighting somewhere. Clyde returns home from the war suddenly one day, but he seems to be keeping secrets. Todd doesn’t quite know what’s going on, but he knows there is tension between Clyde and his father. There is also a problem with the Jansans’ neighbors, the Hammonds’. Horace Hammond gets drunk often and likes to hold his children over the well by their feet. Todd as well as his sisters are scared of Mr. Hammond, and none of them are allowed on his property for fear of what he may…
The theme that the terrible brutality of war will be developed throughout the book. Initially, the story was describing how the battlefield presented in the book and the impact of the continuous war. The main characters experienced the cruelty of the war. Their impression and their thoughts would indirectly reflect the real situation that how the enemy attacked, how their classmates treat them. Talking about the main characters. Paul Bäumer and his company are the main characters who changed significantly from the beginning of war till the end. Their attitude, their passion, and their hopes to live were transformed completely. At first, they are passionate volunteers who were considering the war a new experience. Some of them even brought books and dreaming about plans after finishing the quick war. Throughout the novel, Paul is the center among all of them. His experience is intended to represent the experience of a whole generation of men who went straight from childhood to fighting in World War I. His actual personality contradicts with the way the war forces him to act and feel. His memories of the time before the war show that he was once a very different man from the despairing…
One day his brother and he were walking around off the reservation at Winnipeg. They happen to be caring their entire saving when they saw a beautiful red convertible for sale. Without much thought the brothers purchased the vehicle, they traveled, driving all over the United States and enjoying all the marvelous sights. But one day a couple of weeks into the summer he ran a cross a girl in search of help. She was desperately trying to get back home to chicken Alaska, henry and Lyman both decide that they would take her home and fell in love with the place. The almost constant sun was addicting but to soon the seasons began there change and darkness began to take over as the winters chill became prominent, it was time to leave to finish there journey the boys decided. They continued traveling all over the contantel u.s. before finally finding themselves home, and sadly for henry the homecoming was short live. The military had called on him, accepting his enlistment and drafting him into the marines. Herny was away for three years and during his time in the vitame war he had been capture, but for his younger brother those three years were full of enterprise and maintaining they’re car, always keeping henry in his thoughts.…
The reason that scene stood out to me was because as I examine Inman’s character, I find that from the war and all the flash backs he is having it comes off as a mild case of PDSD. He is trapped within himself time to time. As his main plotline is to return to cold mountain to see his wife Ada. He runs into a lot of obstacles and more challenges that postpone him back. This scene shows us that Inman just wants everything to be okay and back to normal again. To “fly away” as in to leave all his problems. By leaving all his war problems behind he could be back home with his wife Ada living happily ever after. Instead Inman is a long way from home, lonely at heart, and having all these flash backs of the war which are slowly tearing him apart.…
This battle is a wake up call for Charley and the soldiers when they lose the Battle of Bull Run. Charley experiences horrific things, that he will not be able to erase from his mind. For example, a soldier near Charley head gets blown off. The first battle traumatized Charley, and vomits in the woods, while hiding behind a tree. Charley fights his second battle and again sees deaths by many soldiers dropping one by one near him. He meets another soldier near his age named Nelson. Charley becomes close with him. He could not find Nelson during this second battle and later finds him on the ground wounded. He is shot in the stomach and will not live. Charley helps Nelson with his last wishes and Nelson shoots himself as Charley walks…
The book starts out with Miles Halter’s going away party, where only 2 of his classmates show up. He’s starting school at a private school, Culver Creek, as a junior. Back home, he never had many friends, but at “the Creek” he instantly connects with his roommate, Chip Martin, or, as everyone calls him, “The Colonel”. The Colonel introduces Miles to all his Culver Creek friends, including Alaska Young. Miles instantly falls in love with Alaska and refers to her as “the hottest girl in all of human history”…
Constantly bombarded with life and death situation Inman resorts to more aggressive measures, justifying his decision to protect innocents. Instincts for survival do not fade easily; his experiences of war have hardened him, leaving his morality wavering. Through Inman's journey, his beliefs are called into question when faced with physical danger and internal suffering. Inman's mind is fractured, idealizing a perfect world and a perfect home. He will come home, but it will not be the perfect place that has led him through his path. His struggles reach their height when Inman is betrayed; marched until he was near death, then shot and left for dead. Then thrown into a mass grave with a layer of dirt covering him. He lies there for most the…
The novel begins by introducing Miles Halter, an introverted kid who decides to leave his home and attends Culver Creek in Alabama, in order to seek a Great Perhaps. Starting his first year at Culver Creek High School, Chip “The Colonel”, his roommate gives Miles the nickname of “Pudge”. His acquaintances with the Colonel, Alaska Young, “The hottest girl in all of human history” and Takumi, a Japanese student with a southern accent eventually blossom into friendships, and together they make mischief (in the form of pranks, drinking and smoking cigarettes).…
Throughout the years there has been much of conflict and segregation among the people, but over the century people have started to cooperate with each other. This novel takes place in during a time period were there was segregation between races existed. Scout a young innocent, intelligent, girl has started to grow and is describing much of the racism that she sees in…
The story kicks off in 1959 with the tale of the birth of Ian, the narrator. His father rushes his wife to the hospital because she is in labour. This results in Ian’s parents barely making the last Ferry boat to Fort Vermillion, allowing them to meet Bud Peyen, who later becomes Ian’s father’s closest friend. The first few chapters of the book are centered on Ian’s father, Hank, and his issues with alcoholism, unemployment, and finally abandonment. After Hank leaves Ian’s mother and their six children, the story switches its focus to the relationships between the natives and the whites. Most of the whites and natives are divided with the exceptions particularly Ian and his best friend, Lloyd Loonskin. Lloyd is first introduced…
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The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find help. With the assistance of Carl Linstrum, a kind boy and neighbor to Alexandra’s family, the kitten is rescued. Alexandra then tells Carl, secretly, that their father is very sick and will most likely die soon. On their way back to their homes, Alexandra explains to Carl all her worries,…
The two characters of Ruby and Ada are brought to the reader of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier as an example of the strange and illogical way in which people were thrown together in times of desperation and uncertainty such as the American Civil War. The reader is enthralled as these two women find in each other the qualities to soothe their needs and for Ada, gain the appropriate education which is crucial in order for her even to survive. Frazier uses the relationship built between these two characters to impel the reader into feeling and understanding the desperation and hardships faced by the characters at the time of the novel and the utter importance of knowing nature and the workings of the natural world. The contrast between the two women is evident from the beginning of the novel from their individual appearances through to their motivations, priorities, life experiences and status economically and socially. It is however, the common drive, the need to survive, that brings Ruby and Ada together and Frazier uses this strange union to explore many intriguing themes and ideas.…
As the world was transitioning from the stone age into the copper age a tragic death took place; Oetzi was murdered for power. Oetzi, also known as the iceman, is the world’s oldest unsolved murder. Scientists suspect he was 45 to 50 years old when he was killed. There was a flint arrowhead found in his shoulder and weapons were found near his body. He died more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian side of the Alps and his body was not found until 1991 by hikers trekking through the mountains.…
The main protagonists are Joe Christmas, Gail Hightower, Lena Grove and Byron Bunch. Joe Christmas is the main character that the plot revolves around. The story describes his struggling to accept himself and to find his place in the world. The story is set in Mississippi, nearby Mottstown and other nearby locations in the 1920s, with flashbacks. It is told in both third person limited and omniscient.…