...There are many comparisons between Inman from "Cold Mountain" and Odysseus from "The Odyssey." For example: journey, their wife loyalty, and hero return. I am going to tell you why they both are similar. First of all, journey, they both are compared because they were both was in a war and trying to return back home. But they can't because they have to make a journey/quest to return home. And how they both want to go back to the woman they love. While they are traveling there is going be consequences along their way, for example: Charles wrote,"The crows stayed on through much of the afternoon, celebrating their victory. Inman watched them anytime his eyes were open, observing closely their deportment and method of expression. And when his eyes were closed, he dreamed he lived in a kind of world where if a man wished it he could think himself into crow form, so that,...
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...Symbolism and Foreshadowing in Cold Mountain Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent or portray ideas in a story or novel. Foreshadowing is the use of clues in a story to suggest what is going to happen later on. These two literary devices often work together because authors use symbols to foreshadow future events. In his novel, Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier constantly utilizes the literary device duo of symbolism and foreshadowing. Frazier uses the symbols of crows, Cold Mountain, and the colors of black and white to not only represent ideas, but to foreshadow events to come. The crow, seen multiple times throughout the novel, is an ambiguous symbol. Its symbolism is twofold. Crows are thought to be mischievous and clever, resourceful and opportunistic, and in Cold Mountain, they are ever present. For Ruby, crows are a symbol of independence, wisdom and survival: “She noted with disapproval that many a bird would die rather than eat any but food it relishes. Crows will relish what presents itself” (Frazier 176). For Ruby, crows symbolize life and how to survive in nature. Inman also sees crows as a symbol of independence and freedom. He envies them because they are free from the constraints that the world imposes on humans. On the other hand, crows symbolize a more sinister side to life. Throughout Inman’s travels, he encounters many difficulties. Crows seem to accompany all of these worst moments. Inman remembers seeing crows during the war and at Junior’s place before...
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...Cold Mountain Cold Mountain, a novel wrote by Charles Frazier, is a Civil War story, a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely, dangerous journey to find the way back home, and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. Cold Mountain opens with Inman staying in a Virginia hospital trying to recover his wound from the war. One day he speaks to a blind man he usually saw through the window of the hospital’s room. When the blind man asks Inman to “cite me one instance where you wished you were blind,” Inman doesn’t know where to begin. There are many like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, but “Fredericksburg was a day particularly lodged in his mind.” At that time, he wishes that he himself had been blind at Fredericksburg when his regiment shot down thousands of Federal troops. He wishes that there is no war that takes many lives of soldiers, partitions families and makes him shatter by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army. Inman returns to the ward and opens his copy of Bartram’s Travels at random. He finds...
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...Charles Frazier's first novel, Cold Mountain, met with substantial critical and popular acclaim immediately upon its publication in 1997. Inspired by family stories about W. P. Inman, Frazier's great-great-uncle, Cold Mountain combines fact and fiction to tell a tale of love and hope against the backdrop of the American Civil War, which took place between 1861 and 1865. Frazier's Inman is a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts from the army and walks across North Carolina to Cold Mountain, his childhood home, where he hopes to find his beloved Ada Monroe, a minister's daughter, waiting for him. Along the way, Inman endures many harsh experiences while trying to avoid the Home Guard, local troops charged with capturing and returning deserters—also known as "outliers"—using whatever brutal means necessary. Meanwhile, Ada, a sheltered city girl, must learn to manage her farm after her father's death. Ada's trials and tribulations are made somewhat easier to bear by Ruby, an illiterate mountain girl who offers to help Ada in exchange for a place to stay. Frazier's novel is set during the Civil War, but the author focuses on the obscure soldiers and civilians who struggle to survive the violence and social disorder, rather than on the major battles and famous leaders generally encountered in history books. Frazier depicts the war's grim consequences on people who are far removed from the great issues that led to the Civil War, giving his readers some idea of the devastation visited...
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...poem The Odyssey and Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain, many similarities are displayed. A few similarities exemplified are the character traits shared between the protagonists, the destination of the journeys, and the motivations for the character’s adventures. Similar character traits are shared between Odysseus and Inman. Odysseus, the protagonist of The Odyssey, is the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war. Inman, the protagonist of Cold Mountain, is a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. Both Odysseus and Inman share the quality of partaking in a war of some time period. When traveling through their journeys, both of the characters are required to think intelligently when encountering conflicts of supernatural...
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...Throughout popular literature, heroes share defining qualities and can often be similar. In both the epic poem The Odyssey and the book Cold Mountain the heroes, Odysseus from The Odyssey and Inman from Cold Mountain share qualities that make them similar. The Odyssey is set in Ancient Greek times and the main character Odysseus took a long journey to get home to his wife Penelope. It's a similar case in Cold Mountain for Inman. Inman is a confederate soldier who is jaded of war and longs to be back with his girl, Ada, so took a long journey to his home Cold Mountain where Ada is In both the classics there are common traits, goals, and fates for the two heroes. To begin with in both of the classics there is common traits between the...
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...family’s dignity and honor differentiates her from Abraham as a more believable character. Abraham’s character seems unbelievable because he is willing to kill his own son without questioning and hesitation solely because God asks him to. In Genesis chapter 22, God commands Abraham to take Isaac, Abraham’s only son, to the land of Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice to God. Hearing this supposedly shocking and inhumane order, Abraham does not question God at all. He appears to suffer neither mental disturbance nor sorrow of losing his only son; he simply accepts the order with unexplainable ease. Isaac was born when Abraham was one hundred years old, and Abraham’s wife, Sarah, was ninety years old. One would expect that Abraham cherishes and loves his late...
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... * Thesis: No matter how many years pass, I will always remember the warm summers and the cold winters that I spent as a little girl in Strawberry Valley. * Body: * Setting * I had a love-hate relationship with those three hour drives to the mountain. * Scenery (Desert) * Dry/Barren * Rocks * Car games * A-Z * I Spy * Climax (tr. One weekend…) * Caves * Four wheeling * Fishing * Spending nights around the fire * Ending * Family * Time with dad * Ability to get lost within what mother nature has created * Conclusion (tr. In the end) * Although I no longer get to take trips to the mountain, it is a memory that will stay close to my heart forever. Mountain Memories From a young age, I can remember the smell of the trees and turns in the road that led us to the cabin. This was a drive that I remember taking several hundred times throughout my childhood. These drives took me far from the big city to a small village where I could truly embrace Mother Nature’s creation. No matter how many years pass, I will always remember the warm summers and the cold winters that I spent as a little girl in Strawberry Valley. I had a love-hate relationship with the three hour drives to the mountain. Trips from Las Vegas to Strawberry Valley mostly consisted of the dry and barren desert. As I...
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...novel, Summer, headed the literary, feminine, sexual revolution of the 1920s. Summer was published in 1917 and remains Wharton’s most sexually explicit novel, showcasing Charity Royall, the main character, sexually awakening and in love as a stranger to the rural North Dormer enters into her life. Charity’s life description leaves the reader a sense of greyness and boredom in her tired life of living in the “red house” and working in a dingy library. As Charity finds herself stuck in North Dormer between two places, the prosperous Nettelton and the lawless Mountain, she also finds herself stuck between two men, young Lucius Harney and her guardian Mr. Royall. Looking at Summer through a psychological reading, Charity’s actions...
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...This last quarter we read the book Cold Mountain. We also read the epic poem The Odyssey. Through both of these stories we find a multitude of similarities between the journey of Odysseus and the journey of Inman. Both Inman and Odysseus begin their journeys in the same way. The two main characters are returning from very important wars for their home. Inman is returning from the Civil war. Although he fought for the losing side in the end Inman still fought in a war that is very important for his nation. Odysseus fights for the winning side in The Trojan War and it has an equal importance for his homeland. This sets the scene for both of their journeys home. Meanwhile both of our main characters have a lover who is struggling without them at home. Odysseus’s lover is penelope who must deal with all the suitors who think that Odysseus is dead because he has been...
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...could find my way around because I was so familiar with all areas of middle Tennessee. For example, I had a job interview in Lebanon, which is a smaller city outside of Hermitage, Tennessee about 30 minutes from Nashville. I wasn’t familiar with the area but had traveled through there on several occasions. I got the address from the receptionist and located the place almost instantly in time for my interview. Tennessee weather is sporadic at best. I can remember one year, it was 60 degrees when I woke up to get the kids ready for school and by 2 o’clock that afternoon, it was snowing. The seasons change very abruptly in Tennessee. It has one long hot spell and one long cold spell. There is not a “fall” or “spring” really. You wake up one day and all the leaves are gone off of the trees and it is very cold outside. Leaves hardly get a chance to turn before falling to the ground. Summertime is the worst season of all in Tennessee. The heat is not real bad, it’s the humidity that that makes you feel miserable if you have to be outside. My family went to a family reunion down there in the middle of July last year. It was at Cedars of Lebanon Park. That particular day, the temperature was in the low 90’s but the humidity made it feel like 120 degrees outside and we had...
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...crops such as hay and corn. The other farm has many cows roaming around inside of a fenced area while grazing on hay. There is also an oval shaped pond in her backyard. After a long day I always swim in the pond and in the middle of it there is a huge navy blue raft I swim to and sit on for a while. The pond also stocked with fish so it’s fun to go fishing in too. I love visiting my grandma during the summer because it is very peaceful and eventful. Another reason I enjoy being in Tennessee is the extremely beautiful weather that it has. There are consistent hot and sunny temperatures. In the summer it is usually around 80-100+ degrees outside. During this time I’m never occupied in the house at all and I’m pretty much living in shorts and tank tops throughout the whole summer. Every once in a while Tennessee experiences a tropical storm. When it rains the temperature drops 10 or 20 degrees. The storms causes a lot of wind gusting from every direction, trees bending, and leafs getting pulled off of trees flying in the air wherever the wind takes them. Again, it is rarely ever cold there. Since it is not cold...
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...Victor Makara 3.m Essay on The shinning Mountain. Every child wants to impress its parent somehow. Rather it’s getting good grades in school or becoming the star on the football team. Sometimes children feel that they can’t disappoint their parents because they don’t want to appear as a weak person. Especially when they have to live up to their parents’ reputation. This is the case of the Scottish schoolgirl Pangma-La in the modern fairy tale The Shinning Mountain written by Allison Fell. Pangma-La’s father is a famous mountaineer and has named her daughter after the shinning mountain so that she would stand tall and be proud. There is no doubt that the reader deals with a story with super natural elements, which makes it a fairy tale. For instance the mountain goddess who use magic and turns Pangma-La into a swan. The fact that the subject receives help from the mountain goddess the third time is also typical for a fairy tale. The Shinning Mountain takes place in a modern world, for example because Pangma-La takes the bus to school. The fact that the setting takes place in a modern world is unusual for a fairy tale. There seems to be some likeness in the setting of the story – for example the countries the story takes place in – Nepal and Scotland – They are both countries with many mountains, but Scotland is Pangma-La’s home which makes it a lot more safe to be in. The colours that are being used also play a huge part for the story. The colour of the plane is white,...
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... 3 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 x 2 3 3 x 0 x G D Em C As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts G D Em C Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms G D Em C Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? G D Em C For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt C G And my head told my heart C G D "Let love grow" C G But my heart told my head C G D "This time no this time no" G D Em C We'll be washed and buried one day my girl G D Em C And the time we were given will be left for the world...
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...Maria Garcia Mrs. Ripple English Comp. 1 TH 6-9 20 October, 2011 Some Scars May Never Heal “I don’t know what it is to be a kid.” Beautiful and gracefully aged, my Aunt Juana is self educated and learned to work hard at a young age. Appearances are deceiving in my aunt’s case. Of the Mexicans that grew up in the 50’s many of them didn’t have a chance to live a normal childhood. Like other kids from that time, my Aunt Juana had to work on the farm ever since she could remember. It was sad, lonely, and traumatizing growing up on the farm. “There was never time to play,” she told me. She believes that her dad had kids merely to work on the farm and not to love. “I felt like a worker and not a daughter.” Sitting in my Aunt Juana’s living room, we were talking about my grandparents’ upcoming 50th anniversary party, and how my dad was stressed trying to organize the party. As Aunt Juana ate a roasted corn she patiently peeled each kernel with her hand, she reminisced about when she was a child and what it was to grow up on the farm. Aunt Juana had to be up by dawn every morning. One of her duties was to feed all the animals they had around the house which included pigs, chickens, sheep and the cows that were kept close by to milk. After all the animals were fed, she then would help her mom milk the cows. Her duty was to hold the baby calf by the rope while my grandma milked the cow and no matter how blistered her hands would get from the thick rope, she knew better...
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