Frazier Charles "Cold Mountain"
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It is the time of the American Civil War (1861-65), and the northern states are winning the war against the southern states. A wounded soldier, Inman, has deserted from the southern army and is trying to return to his home in the Appalachian Mountains and the woman he loves. The journey home is long and dangerous, and Inman doesn't know if he will return alive. The war has done terrible things to people, and he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. He sees himself as a killer, a desperate man. Can he save his soul, or will he turn into the animal that others have become?
‘Cold Mountain’ is a novel of many levels. It combines a story of war and its effects on the men and women involved in it, a story of love between a soldier and the girl he left at home to wait for him, and a story of a great journey, full of moral and physical dangers and choices.
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Text Analysis: Unique words: about 2,300. Total words: about 29,730
Hard words: angel, barn, cabin, caravan, carriage, cart, civil war, cornmeal, cove, desert, fast, fiddle, gorge, hardtack, heal, knapsack, lap, long, outlier, pistol, plow, porch, preach, rooster, saw, set off, stroke, thistle, tracks, tune
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