Summary Of Charlie Anderson In The Movie Shenandoah

In Robert Newton’s novel “Runner, Charlie Feehan, the 15-year-old main character, lives with his Ma and younger brother in the slums of Richmond. Charlie's father died from Spanish flu three months before the events in the novel happened, After Charlie's father died and got taken away therefore Charlie had to support his Ma. Charlie Feehan respects his family along with friends above all else.

Throughout time we have gone through many wars, and with these wars come death and destruction. Most people aren’t actually the ones fighting in wars but we are able to explore the world of war through novels and films. One classic novel it Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, this novel follows young Joe Bonham as he goes to fight in World War I, only to end up severely injured and stuck in a hospital bed. Likewise in the 1965 American Civil war movie, Shenandoah the Anderson family wants no part in the war but are forced into it when their youngest son, Boy, is taken. Boy is forced to fight in the war, at the age of 16, and he has to face consequences from the war. Although Joe and Boy both experience very different life changing events

Many times in someone's life they do not understand why they are doing something. In Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, Joe a young soldier who is fighting a war that he thought he understood. He believed that he was fighting with a purpose and then the unexpected happened. He lost his legs, arms, and was left with a large hole in his face. This is when he becomes to realize that he is not personally invested in the war and that he only went because it was expected of him. This is similar to Sam from Shenandoah. He is a young confederate soldier who is called off to fight in the Civil War on the day of his wedding and is forced to leave his new bride at home to wonder if she will ever see her husband. He is heartbroken getting the news that he has to leave for war but knows he has to be strong. He is caught by the north army and is taken by train. When his bride’s brother goes missing her family goes out to look for him. Instead of finding the boy they find Sam and his wife is relieved. Sam has his realization that he doesn’t fully understand why he is in the war. Although Sam and Joe realize the truth in different ways, both do eventually understand that they weren't personally invested in the war.

A little ten year old boy was taken as a prisoner of war. He was snatched out of his life and destined to die while others lived. His death actually happened in history, but also in the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead. It is the year 1775, the Revolutionary War is just stirring among the people. The narrator is Tim Meeker, the youngest son in a family that runs their tavern in the town of Redding. The Meeker family goes through many sufferings at the cost of war. His older brother, Sam is a Yale student who goes to war to fight the British against his father’s wishes. Through the course of the book, many sufferings arise in Redding. Life gets tougher and the Meekers experience the hard reality of war. The authors are against war because they

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

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

The Charlie Company is made up many different types of men in their teens and early twenties ranging from the boys who grew up in upper-class family with a very privileged life to boys that grew up in poor families. Many of these young men never imagined that they would be drafted into the Vietnam War and in turn it would change their lives forever. There were men that voluntarily enlisted into the Vietnam War like John Young. John Young, who was inspired by John F. Kennedy, was attending college when he decided that it was his calling to enlist in the military. John Young served as a squad leader in the 1st platoon. He came to war eager and ready to fight for his country. He thought that he was so smart and skilled that when he gets to Vietnam he will not lose many of his men, but he thought wrong. When he first arrived to Vietnam with his unit it did not take long until he started losing his men. At this time in America Uncle Sam was sending out drafts for young men aged late teens to early twenties to join the war. There was a problem with this draft because if you did not want to go to war you did not have to. Men that went to college did not have to go to war. This caused many people at this time to go to college and get a degree and maintain their grades. Men that were gay or had a doctors note from their doctor saying they were “injured” did not have to go to war either. Men that were

No one knew they would be getting into this mess. John Hanstrange was a farmer boy and he had never fought in a war. The date was March 3, 1863. The war had started two years ago and and it did not show sign of stopping anytime soon. John had been taken away from his home earlier that month and had been taken to the Confederate army. He was a scrawny boy with blonde hair and blues eyes. His days consisted of pulling weeds and picking at his humongous pimples.

In The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, stories of the events leading up to the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, as well as the battle itself, are told from both the Northern and Southern perspectives. During the Civil War men fought for various reasons. Shaara uses the thoughts and actions of his characters to identify each person’s purpose for fighting. There were many factors that led men to fight in the Civil War. While soldiers had many reasons to fight, Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, brings focus to three major factors and characters: Robert E. Lee fought for his homeland, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain fought for an ideal and Jeb Stuart fought for the glory.

Charlie Anderson owned a farm in the south during the revolutionary war and trying to stay out of the war as long as he can. But once he loses his son boy to the war he starts to engage in it. Searching for boy his oldest son gets shot and dies, also back at the ranch his second eldest son James is being killed by looters. This is the physical loss that Charlie suffers during the war and even though he wasn’t injured during the war he lost two people very close to him. Even though Charlie didn't suffer as great physical loss in the war he definitely still felt physical loss losing two of his sons. Charlie also suffered great mental loss during the story. His mental loss similar to Joe’s was caused by his Physical loss. Charlie was already mentally scarred after the death of his wife after the birth of his youngest son, boys, birth. So when the war takes his two oldest sons he is even more mentally affected. Charlie was affected more mentally than physically but he still suffered great loss. The story of Shenandoah definitely shows the consequences of war and the loss associated with it. Even though Charlie didn't suffer any physical damages to himself he definitely was affected

When news gets to Charlie he now realizes he has a reason to get involved in the war. For Charlie he now has a personal investment because his son means more to him then what the war is dealing with. If his son also means war he is willing to take the chance and go look for him. Charlie does not fall in the trap of the glorification of war, he instead gets involved in war for the right reasons which is saving his son. Although Joe was drafted into the war he did not realize he had a choice to go or not to go.

They were from two completely different states, Charlie in Minnesota and Henry in Ohio. Henry was one of the more mature ones from the group. Henry was actually legal age to join the war, but Charlie was only a 15-year-old boy trying to provide for his family. Henry got off easy with his injury, Henry was hit upside the head with a gun, while Charley took a bullet. The contrasts of

Personal Investment is a major factor that people need to take into consideration when making any types of decisions, and it ultimately helps people understand if the decision they are making will either benefit or hurt them in the end. This theme is commonly used in many different types of literature and films throughout many years. One novel that includes personal investment is a classic World War 1 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, an award-winning author and screenwriter who was blacklisted from the film industry from 1947 until the early '60s due to his Communist ties. Johnny Got His Gun is about a young soldier named Joe, who deals with many physical and mental consequences because of his involvement in war. Similarly, an old Civil War Era movie, Shenandoah, follows a man named Charlie Anderson and his family while they try to avoid the war as it invades their property. Although Joe and Charlie both

The famous anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, is about the life of a war hero named Joe Bonham. The book talks about the consequences of war. He was a typical American guy with a normal life until he went to war. There he got badly injured and lost many of his limbs. The story describes the aftermath of Joe going to war and getting injured.