The assignment Lama Aboud

My personal opinion

Personally, I need to show you my personal opinion on the story to the severity of the beauty of the story, as well as to the severity of the ambiguity in the title, which attracted me quickly also  personally  i am a person who liked a adventure and exploration and i always strive to bring justice and does not like war, and I hope that peace prevails in the world because of this i choose this story.

Cold Mountain is a story to be read at first, and then placed down on a table, as you close your eyes and hear angels beating their wings softly all around you. Never have I read such lyrical prose anywhere, never have I seen the pit of human emotion-struggle, hope, defeat and perseverance-being shovelled so fully out. It is a story that will tug your heart and make you cry and it is a book that will demand to be read and read and read till you go crazy .

after i finished reading the story I will be back to read again, it puts you in a war to end the reading of the intensity of the thrill that in its pages .

Summary

A magnificent love story, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart, Ada. Inman’s odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada’s struggle to revive her father’s farm with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world in which they now live.

In Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier describes the epic journey home of wounded Confederate soldier Inman from Petersburg to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Inman’s physical voyage home is paralleled by the mental journey made by his sweetheart, Ada, in her transformation from ‘city girl’ into ‘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. It also blends the horrors of war into their current lives, and the corruption that has scarred them forever. Inman and Ada’s respective ordeals help develop the themes of war, homeland, women and children .

A description of the story characters

There are plenty of characters in the story, who met in the story the hero on his journey to return to his home, and had a significant impact on the course of events in the story, but the main characters in the story are as follows:

Inman –  The male protagonist. The novel follows Inman’s journey home from the slaughter he has witnessed in the Civil War. Inman is intelligent, literate, and sensitive, although he often appears emotionally reserved. Troubled by the carnage he has witnessed, Inman seeks spiritual solace in the natural world and in his memories of Ada. He attempts to retain his hope and his faith in a better world in the face of incomprehensible violence and cruelty.

Ada Monroe –  The female protagonist and Inman’s lover. Roughly half of the novel is written from her perspective. Ada is a highly educated, literate, and intensely private young woman. The novel begins six years after she moves with her father from Charleston to Cold Mountain. She has experienced the hardship and loss of her father’s death, and she has been left penniless and in charge of the farm. Ada feels alienated from small town society and rejects its restrictive mentality.

Ruby Thewes –  To an extent, Ruby is a foil to Ada. Uneducated and illiterate, Ruby possesses a store of knowledge about the natural world that she gleaned while younger, when her father would leave her for weeks at a time to go drinking. Ruby speaks plainly and insists on being treated like an equal. She possesses a warm and loyal heart underneath her gruff exterior. She supports her father when he returns as an army deserter to seek her help.

Monroe –  Ada’s dead father and the old preacher of Cold Mountain. Monroe moved with his daughter to Black Cove to speed his recovery from consumption. His wife died giving birth their daughter. A kind man and unconventional preacher, Monroe recognizes in hindsight that he has been overly protective of Ada.

Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy it .