GENERAL
1. My novel is called "Soldier's Heart" a fiction book. It was about a young boy named Charley Goddard who grew up in a small farm and enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers, he was barely 15 years old and he didn't really know what he was fighting for. Only that he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure. The shooting war as they called it meant horror of combat and the wild luck of survival. He saw things he wished he'd never seen, and wished he could be just back home but he stayed and never ran off. He was so used to the routine of the war that he was no longer scared as he was his first day of battle. He was just waiting for his turn to die, and when he got shot at his last battle he was sad but also happy that his time was over. Though he survived those shots he came back home different he couldn't hold off job's, his wounds didn't heal properly nor his mental anguish. He was elected for country clerk, but before he could serve his wounds and the stress took him and he died in December, 1868. He was only twenty-three years old.
2. The theme of this novel is about the boy Charley and his experience in the battle.
3. The author's tone is sad when he says "He sat, listening to the ripple of the river, watching the water go by, thinking of all the pretty things." definitively something that made me think. Also he was very regretful when he said "He was 21, just waiting to where he should be studying on marriage and raising some young ones.But it couldn't be that way no more."He was also very loving to his mother when he would say "He would write her letters every single day until there was nothing left of him."
CHARACTERIZATION
1.DIRECT
- You don't know nothing as much as a slick-eared calf.
-He thought then realized he was screaming to them "Where's your damn yell now.?"
INDIRECT
-He started to hide himself, turn away
-Charley saw his partner dying and knew no one would come for help but didn't say nothing.
My last impression of this character is that like every human being we all say things that were not afraid to say but then at time we quiet in order to not cause any misunderstandings.
2.The authors diction is actually always straight forward doesn't use cliches on what hes trying to say.
3. The protagonist is dynamic when it said " Charley nodded and was surprised to find himself crying. Hes a round character who shows his feelings and cares about people who show him good.
4. I Actually feel like if I met this character but who was older than his age its pretty amazing.
