“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies”-(Unknown). In the book Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt she wrote about a nine year old boy named Jethro Creighton and his family. A war started to arrive in mid-April 1861, because of the north and south wanted to either keep slaves or to free them but that decision caused chaos to start to emerge. This chaos jumped into Jethro’s life when some of his brothers joined the war almost all of them joined the north but one joined the south, which in their case was the enemy. This left Jethro with the job of plowing the field. He got help from his fourteen year old Sister Jenny. Jethro’s mother Ellen and his father Matt were left worrying about their sons John, Tom, Bill, and their cousin Eb, and Jenny’s boyfriend Shadrach Yale. All this chaos with the war left the Creighton’s family worried sick, through all this they had to deal with the consequences of betrayal, and death on their minds. Throughout the book …show more content…
the Creighton family encountered betrayal. “He acted according to what he thought was right. Your father John, you and I, none of us sees the right as he sees it. But that doesn’t make bill all wrong”-(Hunt, 60). Bill decided to join the south, which was the Creighton’s enemy but they weren’t mad they just accepted that he chose what he thought was right which was to fight for the south. But what this action caused was betrayal because the town did care and they got mad because bill had just betrayed their country. So they took it out on bill’s family which caused lots of problems. With Jethro’s brothers being off in war he was left with the heavy work like plowing the field but Jenny was there to help him. Jethro had a lot of things on his mind like was his brothers going to come back? Or would they die In the war? Betrayal can affect lots of people, it can make people do things out of anger.
“When he ran to the door he saw the barn enveloped in flames”-(Hunt, 106). Why the barn was enveloped in flames was because the citizens decided to take matter in their own hands and punish the Creighton family because of what bill did which was join the south. All this happened al because bill decided to join the southern army. The Creighton family was most affected by this betrayal because they got punished because it was their son and brother. This time was very rough on the Creighton family. They suffered through the consequences of bills decisions. If Bill didn’t decide to join the south they might have not have suffered through what had happened. The Creighton’s could have just lost all their animals but luckily they were in the field. But their hay still burned in the great fire. It’s not the Creighton’s fault that Bill decided to join the south the citizens did not have to take all their anger on
them. The war left worry in the Creighton family. “I couldn’t sleep after I read the papers jenny brought me. I kept thinking of the two young boys-and Bill-and of John being in the battels later on”- (Hunt, 100). The big war kept going on it went on for four and a half years. All this war left worry in Jethro’s family. Why the war left worry in their family is because half their family is in the war and they are versing each other. All this worry was corrupting the family. Shadrach Jethro teacher and Jenny’s love went in the war too so he woyuld be fighting to which just added more worry in their lives. It left worry because what if someone dies? What if they can’t come back to help Jethro with the spring harvest. All this worry of the war, and the worry of their family dyeing in the war, also the betrayal on their town because of Bill joined the south left them Creighton’s chaotic but they pulled out with it and still managed to pull through with whatever they had to do. But will the chaotic town end up hurting them because of Bill? Do you think the burning barn was just a warning and they will strike again? Betrayal can get people really angry. This betrayal that bill committed made the town damage the Creighton’s barn. But with the help of those close friends of theirs they cleaned the mess. Because of Jethro’s brothers being in the war he had no one but jenny to help with the fields this really changed Jethro and it seemed like Jethro became more intelligent and older every time he plowed the field. The war affected Jethro and he got the job done but what if he needs help? What if Jenny leaves he’ll be all by himself no one to help. If this war keeps going on Jethro won’t have to worry about his brothers they might be killed in the war. In conclusion, sometimes people have to fight for what’s right, they fight for what they believe is right it might not always be the right choice but all their doing is following their heart.
I read the book Braving the Fire. It takes place in the year 1863. The book is about a 15 year old boy from Maryland named Jem Bridwell. He lives on a farm with his father, grandfather, and their slaves. Because Maryland was a “border state” during the civil war, it was not considered part of the Confederacy, although most of the people living in Maryland at the time were for the Confederates. Jem’s father, Tom Bridwell, on the other hand had joined the Union Army because he believed in freeing the slaves and keeping the Union. James Bridwell, Jem’s grandfather, was completely against Tom’s being in the Union Army and the Union itself.
In, “Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War,” Charles B. Dew analyzes the public letters and speeches of white, southern commissioners in order to successfully prove that the Civil War was fought over slavery. By analyzing the public letters and speeches, Dew offers a compelling argument proving that slavery along with the ideology of white supremacy were primary causes of the Civil War. Dew is not only the Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College, but he is also a successful author who has received various awards including the Elloit Rudwick Prize and the Fletcher Pratt Award. In fact, two of Dew’s books, Tredegar Iron Works and Apostles of Disunion and Ironmaker to
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I felt like the author could clearly show the true contributing factors of the civil war. As an admirer of history, I could use utilize his book for references later on in my academic studies. The book is 127 pages chronicling the events that led to the civil war. Holt gives novices history readers a wonder firsthand look into the world of young America pre-civil war. His book brought out new ways to approach the study of pre-civil war events. The question whether the Civil War was inevitable or could have been derailed was answered in The Fate of Their Country. Holt places the spotlight on the behaviors Politicians and the many congressional compromises that unintendedly involved the actions of the residents of American. These factors at hand placed the Civil war as inevitable. Most of the politician’s views in The Fate of Their Country were egotistical and shortsighted which left gaps in American’s social future. To consider the subject of why, first we need to understand the contributing causes, America’s great expansion project, the Manifest Destiny the driving factor behind the loss of virtue and political discord.
Nothing in life is permanent, everything one day will have to change. A basic necessity of life, change is the fuel that keeps our society moving. In the novel Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain, a fourteen-year-old boy gifted in craftsmanship, experiences changes in all aspects of his life. From a crippled hand to fighting against the British for his country's independence, war transforms Johnny Tremain from a selfish child into a patriotic hero. As the war relentlessly continues, Johnny learns the effects that it has on him as he must focus on the real issue rather than centering around his individual concerns. By reading this novel, we can learn from Johnny how in times of conflict, young men like him must mature into men who
“Every war is everyone’s war”... war will bring out the worst in even the strongest and kindest people. The book tells about how ones greed for something can destroy everything for both people and animals leaving them broken beyond repair, leaving them only with questions… Will they ever see their family again? Will they ever experience what it’s like to
In the next pages I will explain why Fredericksburg was such a tragedy. Why it was a big morale booster for the South, but a disappointment for the North?
In James McPherson’s novel, What They Fought For, a variety of Civil War soldier documents are examined to show the diverse personal beliefs and motives for being involved in the war. McPherson’s sample, “is biased toward genuine fighting soldiers” (McPherson, 17) meaning he discusses what the ordinary soldier fought for. The Confederacy was often viewed as the favorable side because their life style relied on the war; Confederates surrounded their lives with practices like slavery and agriculture, and these practices were at stake during the war. On the other hand, Northerners fought to keep the country together. Although the Civil War was brutal, McPherson presents his research to show the dedication and patriotism of the soldiers that fought and died for a cause.
Each author agreed that the battles were not the only reason for the fall and death of the Confederacy. While battles were being fought on the battlefields, the home fronts were had their own battles to fight. McPherson discusses what he calls as the “internal conflict” thesis, which blames the uneasiness among the southerners. The government was being blamed. Southerners were opposing conscription, taxes, and habeus corpus. McPherson points out that these could not have been reasons for the loss. The same thing was happening in the North. Therefore this internal conflict with the home front government does not have a plausible role in why the South lost the war. If the North was fighting the same type of opposition at home, then shouldn’t the war have ended in a stalemate? Also, the non-slaveholding whites and the slaves were feeling alienated. Rich slaveholders who wanted to keep slave labor alive were fighting the war. The two alienated groups were fighting a war on the wrong side. The non-slaveholders opposed sec...
War can destroy a young man mentally and physically. One might say that nothing good comes out of war, but in Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, there is one positive characteristic: comradeship. Paul and his friends give Himmelstoss a beating in which he deserves due to his training tactics. This starts the brotherhood of this tiny group. As explosions and gunfire sound off a young recruit in his first battle is gun-shy and seeks reassurance in Paul's chest and arms, and Paul gently tells him that he will get used to it. The relationship between Paul and Kat is only found during war, in which nothing can break them apart. The comradeship between soldiers at war is what keeps them alive, that being the only good quality to come out of war.
In the historical narrative Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, Nicholas Leman gives readers an insight into the gruesome and savage acts that took place in the mid-1870s and eventually led to the end of the Reconstruction era in the southern states. Before the engaging narrative officially begins, Lemann gives a 29-page introduction to the setting and provides background information about the time period. With Republican Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America and Republican Adelbert Ames, as the Governor of Mississippi, the narrative is set in a town owned by William Calhoun in the city of Colfax, Louisiana. As a formal military commander, Ames ensured a
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The North’s negligence also contributed to the end of Reconstruction. The North had failed to notice the many racially motivated atrocities that occurred in the South durin...
The novel that I had picked was Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. The reason why I had picked this novel is that it is a Civil War- causes, military leaders, and battles. Across Five Aprils is about a unforgettable story about a young kid whos name is Jethro Creighton, who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. In the beginning of the story Across Five Aprils Jethro doesn't have an understanding of what war is really about. During the war Abraham Lincoln in his worthy to keep Jethro brother and family out of trouble by law. Across Five Aprils then opens up by telling how Joseph Hooker who is before Robert E. Lee. The war had then escalated and taken to the point to where the author can no longer continue writing about the historical events of the Civil War.
Reading this book has changed my own perspective as a young woman. It offers every woman’s nightmare as an individual and a story that many people could compare to. Jen Waite’s memoir of a betrayal is a story you never want to stop reading. It’s like a car crash that I wasn’t able to look away from. This book includes various types of the six signposts, particularly “Words of the Wiser” and as well as “ Contradictions.” Certain things in this book really surprised me as I was reading. There were a lot of aha moments that made me wonder what was going to happen next. The things that were being done in this relationship should of ended way back, even when the couple went on there first ron da vu together. The longer they stayed together, the worse it got. One example, that has to do with “tough questions” signpost, was the fact that her husband was on the phone with his girlfriend while his wife was in labor. That really shows how he cared about her and what trouble he was going to get into. She knew something was going on by the phone records, the uber’s and social media. She confronted him and he denied it all. It was all so obvious that he was a pathological liar