Summary Of The Novel Time Enough For Drums

In the novel Time Enough For Drums there is a person name John Reid. During the novel john fighting through the civil war and trying to keep his secret from getting out that he is a spy. So it was a good idea for picking him. Throughout the novel John was brave, ambitious, and confident. In the novel john was brave. He was brave in because the fought in the civil war and if you wasn't brave than you would not be fighting in the civil war. In the novel it states that “ My superior knew I was sick so they sent me home”(Rinaldi p.288). This explains that he was brave enough to fight in the civil war. Another trait about john was that he was ambitious throughout the novel. John would help jem in the novel and so that jem could better herself.