'Commentary for Soldier’s Heart\r'

'Com workforcetary for â€Å"Sol plumpr’s Heart” Author, Gary Paulsen The book Soldier’s Heart, is based on a ad right story close to a fifteen-year-old male child in Minnesota surnamed, Charley Goddard, who lies about his years to join the First Volunteers of Minnesota to raise up in the elegant War. Some of the events and era sequences be not completely factual, further the essential elements of the books story are true. Charley Goddard is a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in the farming community of Winona, Minnesota, in 1861, just prior to what exit become the Civil War. The whole are is talking about what they think result be a â€Å"shooting war. The atmosphere at the township meetings discussing the possibility is festive, with flags, and drums, and patriotic speeches. As a volunteer army is beginning to form, Charley decides he wants to be a section of it. Every matchless assumes that it volition be an easy, victorious affair, most in a ll probability over in a calendar month or two, if it happens at all. Charley lies about his days and joins the volunteers in what he thinks will be a fun experience that will make him a man. The pay is football team dollars a month, much more than he makes working on the farm. Charley trains and learns to be a soldier.\r\nUpon leaving the camp, the mean are handle as heroes even before they resign town, accompanied by much satisfying and flag waving. Charley feels great, and spirits are high. However, not long after, he finds himself in his show date battle. The Union soldiers lose badly. He is caught in the middle of violent suffering and death, and he cannot believe what is happening so on the spur of the moment all around him. When the battle is over, ascorbic acids of his comrades had been killed, and Charley and the new(prenominal) survivors are stunned. It is eventually named the Battle of squat Run. A camp is created near capital letter and eventually reaches ninet y thousand men.\r\nCharley becomes part of the day to day routine of the camp. He and others forage the farms in the area for viands and eventually build log houses to make love in during the approaching winter. However, many men get diseases such as dysentery and die in the camp. During the time here, Charley participates in one nearby battle against the Rebel Soldiers. The Union wins, that not without losing many men. superstar of them is a man whom Charley befriended only hours before. His name is Nelson, and he is shot in the stomach. Nelson knows the surgeons do not have the skills or time to mend his wound and that he will be left to die.\r\nAs a result, he kills himself on the battlefield as the other soldiers leave for the return run into to the camp. Charley takes part in a battle near Richmond, Virginia where the Confederate Army uses its mount calvary to charge Charley and the Union soldiers. nigh one hundred men on horseback charge six hundred foot soldiers. Charle y and the others are told to shoot the horses in our to defeat the cavalry, and they do so, killing all(prenominal) horse and man. Next, Charley participates in the Battle of Gettysburg, the terminal battle of the war. Here he has the trade protection of rocks, and logs, and a large force of gun for hire behind him.\r\nMost of the charging Rebel soldiers are killed in the lines as they attack, but slightly eventually get close. Charley participates in a hand to hand battle with bayonets. He is finally wounded, and after being join up as well as possible, he is sent home to Minnesota. Charley is a broken man in Winona, Minnesota. He can barely walk with a cane. He constantly passes blood, and his mental health has been affected severely. He contemplates suicide but he decides to hold on to his dreams of the war a while longer. He ulterior dies of complications of the war wounds at the age of 21.\r\n'