An Analysis Of Soldier's Heart

I read Soldier’s Heart, by Gary Paulsen. This story takes place in quite a few settings. A couple of them include Minnesota were Charley (the main character grew up) joined the union to fight in the Civil War. Also, Charley was at the Battle of Bull Run, a battle by Washington D.C., and Gettysburg, as well as the camps that the soldiers stayed in. Charley was fifteen when he joined the Union Army, he said he was ready to be a man, Charley was confident and curious. Charley had a good heart and felt bad for people dying around him. Charley fought against Confederate Rebels, he always wanted to take them out in battle. He got dysentery before his first battle as well. Although he went through a lot his

In the Civil War, we know that slaves were colored people that were fighting for there freedom. They had no rights, they were property. They were mistreated and uneducated objects, to most. Charley Goddard was the protagonist of the story Soldier’s Heart, and he was fighting for the freedom of the slaves.

Perhaps attesting to the enhanced understanding of PTSD and alarm at the troubling suicide rates of veterans, the media seems to be raising the public’s attention about the condition, for example, through the use of documentaries. In 2005, during the second push of the Iraqi and Afghanistan war PBS FRONTLINE released a documentary entitled, “The Soldier’s Heart,” This documentary gives an overview of the history of PTSD, but focuses specifically on the psychological toll of the Iraq war. It illuminates the fact that despite advances in our understanding of PTSD, there continues to be a stigma against psychological problems in the

In Gary Paulsen’s novel, Soldier's Heart, we meet Charley Goddard. Charley is a 15 year old who

Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulson is a magnificent book that shows the true horrors of war. The heart felt story about a young boy named Charley at the beginning he was excited about the war, he went as far as to lie about his age to get in.

In the wise words of Charlie Anderson, “[I]f we don’t try, we don’t do. And if we don’t do, why are we here on this Earth?” Charlie Anderson is the protagonist in the movie Shenandoah, who lives with his six sons, Jacob, James, John, Nathan, Henry, and Boy, and his daughter, Jennie. Charlie Anderson is the type of person who responds to everything by trying and giving it his all, but only if it concerns him. The movie takes place during the Civil war, which occurs near their family farm and Charlie’s intent was to stay neutral because he felt that the war did not concern him, until his youngest son, Boy, was mistaken for a union soldier and taken by the confederate army. Charlie ventures off with five of his sons and his daughter, while James and his wife, Ann, and their baby stay back at the house. Along the way, tragedy strikes the family, affecting them in ways that cannot be undone. The protagonist in the novel Johnny Got his Gun, Joe Bonham, was drafted into the war and greatly injured as a result. Joe experiences a loss of his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and limbs. The only thing that Joe is left with is a working brain and very little ways to communicate with the outside world. As the novel progresses, Joe faces an immense amount of internal conflict and struggles with the effects that war has on him. Although both Charlie and Joe experience the harsh impacts of war, they respond to them in quite different ways.

In a different fashion, Charlie is also similarly thrusted upon the knowledge that his way of life has been negatively affected by the war. While working on the farm like any other day, the neighbors slave, Gabriel, who was spending time with his son Boy, came with inauspicious news that Boy had been taken by Union soldiers. Here Charlie learns that his son who meant so much to him because he was born the day his wife died, has been taken which puts an immediate stop to his thinking that everything is okay. This further promits him, like Joe, to go and search for Boy who represents the past and normal life that has been taken away by war. Even though Joe and Charlie find out what the war has taken from them in unmistakably different ways, they both begin searching for a part of their previous life that has been forcibly taken away from them because of war.

Since he has chosen to go to war at a young age, he sees several things others do not want to see. Since being home, he lives on his own and does not bother looking for a wife because he thinks he is too old. Although he is only 23, he says he becomes old from seeing too much, old from too much life, and old from knowing too much. He is walking with a cane, and he passes blood. Charley does not think he will be alive any longer. In certain ways it makes him sad, but in other ways it makes him happy having to not remember all that he has gone through. He makes himself a picnic near the creek. While watching the water flow, he often wonders whether he should visit the others, and by others Charley means the people who got killed in the war. Charley keeps a weapon he took off of a confederate officer, who has been dead. He comes close to visiting the others because he wants the pain to go away, but now he decides not to leave. He is continuing to think about the pretty things instead of the bad things he thinks about

1.Why do you think Poe has set his story at night time, in the night?

R E V I E W S H E E T 30 Anatomy of the Heart

War can have an immense effect on an individual's life. Warfare can create opportunities by ending tyranny or providing people with freedom. On the other hand, war puts innocent lives at risk and causes families to be torn apart. Depending on how greatly a person is affected, individuals choose how to view war; particularly, in My Brother Sam Is Dead, James and Christopher Collier write about Tim’s horrendous experiences during war. Tim’s decision to be neutral is ultimately decided when war inflicts death upon his friends and family; in this case, Ned, his father, and Sam.

I related the overall war to everyday life. Sometimes it goes smoothly and other times there are “battles”. Whether the battles are mental, physical, or emotional and if you win depends on you and how hard you are willing to push back. Sometimes you get wounded. “I was shot twice…I almost smiled, except then I started to I might die” (180). “…when I was released from the 91st Evac Hospital, they transferred me over to Headquarters Company-S-4” (182). Sometimes in life there are challenges, but eventually with determination, you can preserve and in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It’s about love and memory. It’s about sorrow” (81). I think that it’s important that you take in the little things, because that’s what life’s about. It is about taking chances and making the most out of life. Life’s about going through the struggles and hard times in order to make the good ones even better than they would’ve been

“Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War,” (http://www.civilwar.org/). In the book Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen, a young boy fights among grown men in a war that divides a nation. Charley Goddard, just fifteen years old, signs up to join the war effort, looking for adventure. Quickly, he realizes the Civil War is bloodier, harsher, and more gruesome than he can ever imagine. As part of the Minnesota Men fighting for the North, Charley endures hardships no man should have to endure.

The story was about the time when he found out that he had to go to the war, however, he didn't want to go to it, so he decided to leave the United States. He stated his feelings about the war by saying, “I was no soldier” (41), to show that he knew nothing about it. The way he was raised didn't expose him to the types of things that he’d face in war. In addition, he had a whole future ahead of him due to how well he had done in school. He went on to say that he remembered “the rage in [his] stomach” (42), which showed the feelings of unease that he felt.

In our world organisms occupy a sliding scale of complexity. On one hand we have the single cell organisms, where all necessary functions for their life are carried out within that one cell. At the other extreme we have extremely complex multicellular organisms, of which humans are perhaps the cardinal member. Obviously, with increased capacity comes increased abilities. Complex organisms are able to manipulate their environment to a greater extent then their simpler cousins. While this has a lot of advantages, it also presents interesting biological problems. With the increased complexity multicellular organisms must have systems to deliver nutrients, signaling molecules, and biochemical building blocks to every cell. In