Research Paper on:
Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Books

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books and stories that are merely alluded to or subtly mentioned. One author mentions that the characters spend a great "amount of time...reading or writing....amount of time...thinking about reading or  writing" (Anonymous Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier colfra.htm). The works that they read are actual works from the time period, the period of American history that was the Civil War.  In presenting us with numerous books and stories it appears as though Frazier is giving us a powerful feeling for the time, as well as instructing his characters on how  to survive and live. The characters seek the books and stories and relate to them primarily as tools with which they can not only escape, but learn. In the following  paper we examine some of the books and their significance. The Books The story which Frazier presents us with is relatively simple in its plot. It is the  story of one man, Inman, who is trying to get home after many years of battle in the Civil War. While we watch him move through his journeys and adventures  we also see his love, Ada, working through her own problems in terms of missing Inman and patiently waiting for him and trying to maintain her property. As one author  states, "In this blockbuster first novel, former college lit instructor Charles Frazier weaves a tale of two Civil War journeys; Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, deserts the military to walk  home to his love, Ada, a Charleston-raised preachers daughter struggling to discover her own destiny in the remote hills of North Carolinas Blue Ridge Mountains" (Anonymous "Cold Mountain" By Charles  Frazier cold.mountain). It is a love story of sorts, but also an adventure story that takes us back in time, back to a simpler time. One of the ways