Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 1-20

Summary

The book starts off with the main character Inman, he is a soldier in the Civil War. He is in the hospital due to injuries to his neck. Everyone including the doctors thought he would not make it. So they gave him a gray rag and some basin to clean his own wound. Before he started to clean the wound it started to clean it's self, many things came out of it such as a collar button, a piece of wool from he shirt he had on during the time of the ancient, small amounts of metal , and something that looks like a peach pit. In addition Inman spent a lot of time in the hospital so to kill some time he would read and look out the window and occasionally he would get flash backs of the war and life before the war. So far I like this book, it has a lot of detail of what is going on .I like the way they described the places they were in and how the characters look. the book is very interesting and very graphic.

Quotation

"His right foot had been taken off by grape at Cold Harbor, and the stub seemed not to want to heal and had rotted inch by inch from the ankle up. His amputation had proceeded past the knee, and smelled all the time like last year's ham"(Frazier 3).

Reaction

when I read about some of the soldiers in the book the first thing that pooped in my head
was the living conditions of the soldiers. I started to wonder about their medical care and the types of places lived in. I thought it was very sad and i thought that they needed more then what they were given.