Character Analysis: A Soldier's Last Stand

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A Soldier’s Last Stand Captain William Farnsworth Cook was an honorable man who stuck to his word and defended what he loved as anyone should at any costs. He carried his granddaughter from the middle of nowhere all the way to Bush Hill and stood by her side when she recovered from the deadly yellow fever and protected her to the best of his ability even when at death’s door. The time that seemed most bleak in the events of fever for this character was his last moments towards his heroic and heartbreaking death when the potential last of his family was in danger when two thieves broke into his family home and attacked his granddaughter he took up arms like how he did when he was still a soldier and fired upon the taller thief causing him

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