The year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood, takes place in New Orleans during the American revolution when Creighton must discover whether his loyalties are with his home in England or with America (#8). Creighton starts out as a young teen boy in England skipping class and spending a lot of time gambling at a bar. Early one morning while he’s trying to sneak in he suddenly felt someone grab his arms, he was shipped off to America. After being on the boat for a while Creighton learns that he has been sent to America by his mother because she can’t control him and she wants the help of her brother colonel Gower. When Creighton finally arrives in America he finds a man outside and immediately knows that this man is his uncle. Not long after talking
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.
...s, an artisan and whose practical skill at achieving things done most resembles other American heroes. Fisher explained the courageous journey Paul Revere went through along with representing all that was best in the American character and Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage. Although viewing himself as a liberal and reasonable man who had originally liked Americans and was ended up married to one, Gage had come to hate the Bostonians among whomever else he found himself with during his role as military commander. The action of the book was presented in fifteen chapters (as well as an introduction, aftermath, and epilogue) with the famous alarm itself as midpoint. Paul Revere’s Ride did a great job sketching itself in every detail to explain both Gages, and Revere’s journeys.
How is the conflict in the story affected by the civil war? In the story Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty, a action story, the conflict is where Elijah Tulley is pulled to the fact where his father was killed and he wants his revenge. He goes as a Jayhawker to fight the bushwackers and he is put into a situation of war. He would have to go as a spy as a bushwhacker to understand. This is a affected by the civil war because one side wants slaves and the other doesn’t want slaves. They believe for freedom, so they will want to fight each other for one right.
The book opens with a Confederate spy as he made his way through the Union lines on the night of June 29, 1863 toward Confederate General Robert E. Lee bearing news of the Army of the Potomac as they crossed paths in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The days after follow the various Union and Confederate regiments as they regained their wits about them after the previous Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Marching onward toward Gettysburg, where the most deciding battle of the Civil War would take place.
“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.
Though his killings occurred over thirty years ago Clifford Olson is still knows as one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers. Active through the years 1980-1980 he was responsible for eleven gruesome murders in that short span of time. The shocking nature of his crimes ensured nobody would forget his notorious deeds. To build on that, Olson is loathed because he extorted authorities into paying $100,000 for the locations of his victims’ remains, an agreement that haunted the survivors of Olson’s crimes, and ruined the careers of the officials who buckled under Olson’s outrageous demands. Furthermore, his crime spree led Neighbourhoods that once claimed to be “so safe you could leave your door open” to secure their doors; hitchhikers were seldom found on highways, and telephone poles were covered with posters warning that nearly a dozen adolescents were missing and a killer was on the loose. Had he not been apprehended by the authorities on August 12th, 1981 his spree of brutal slayings may have continued for much longer, as he showed no remorse for his ruthless crimes.
“Jungle of Bones”, written by Ben Mikaelson, is about the journey of an 8th grader, Dylan Barstow. Dylan is an agitated and distraught child, for the death of his father, a war correspondent in Sudan, disturbed him deeply. He developed hatred for the world and everything in it. Dylan releases his anger in a variety of ways, from stealing candy bars to going on joyrides; in addition, he is cruel to his mother and lives a lonesome life. Instead of sending the teenager to juvenile detention, Dylan’s mother decides to ship him off to his Uncle Todd, an ex-Marine, for the summer. Living with an old man who talks and acts like he is still in the military didn’t seem difficult for Dylan. But he soon realized that Uncle Todd plans an expedition to Papa New Guinea in search of the B-17 bomber that Dylan’s grandfather crashed
This type of novel is recommended for anyone interested in the Civil War. Not too many books explore the southern battles, especially from a Confederates soldier’s point of view. Bahr does an excellent job at capturing the essence of the Civil War and its affects on the people involved. The novel was nominated for several awards, earning the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gettysburg College, won the Book-of-the-Month Club, and was a New York Times Notable Book. The book showed some popularity and sold 10,000 copies, but was heavily overshadowed by another...
Gerard John Shaefer Jr., was born into an eventually troubled family on March 25, 1946 in Wisconsin, however he lived most of his early life in Georgia. He was the oldest of three children and was born to a week willed mother and an extremely abusive and adulterous father. At the age of fourteen he, and his family, moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He graduated high school in 1964 from St. Aquinas High School after which he attended Broward Community College. He had a brief, two year marriage with Martha Fogg. They divorced in 1970, Martha accusing him of being extremely cruel. He applied for the priesthood and was turned away for not having enough faith. He attempted to teach and was fired by a few schools for imposing his own beliefs on to his students. Unable to live out any of his “callings” he decided to apply to be a police officer. He was turned down by the Broward County Sherriff’s Department for failing psychological test, but was eventually taken on by the smaller police force of Whilton Mannor in 1970. On April 20, 1972, shortly after receiving a commendation, he was fired. Various reasons were given for his dismissal, including that he lacked common sense and used traffic stops as a way to pick up women. He latter began working as a Deputy Sherriff with the Martin County Sherriff’s Department in Stuart, Florida. After 28 days on the job he made the big mistake that finally got him caught, he let two of his victims escape.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly. New York: Penguin Books, 1981.
The Age of Jackson, written by Arthur M. Schlesinger, focuses on the long lasting effects of Andrew Jackson on democracy and American politics. The novel starts off with Jackson’s life story, a lowerclass boy from the west, raised by a single mother. After finding financial success on his own, he became well known for his military exploits, being a crucial factor in the Battle of New Orleans, and the acquisition of Florida from the Spanish. After the brief account of Jackson’s life, the author moves on to his administration, and stays with that topic for most of the book.
Tex Rickard: the story of his life. The man who was known as Tex Rickard, was born on Jan 2, 1870 with the byname of George Lewis Rickard. He led a life of different jobs, I guess you could say he was a jack of all trades. His life, or the part of it that dealt with the gold rush, was what I would say as, short lived. After raising cattle in Texas, and ruling a little town as the town marshal he decided to move on to something different.
The Coquette, written by Hannah Webster Foster in 1797, chronicles the life of an affluent woman in the 18th century. There are a few themes that are presented throughout the whole novel: correspondence, sexual freedom, and ideal womanhood. Elizabeth Whitman has been an icon of American history since the 19th century because of her bravery and contempt for the caged position of women in society. It is stated that the tombstone of Elizabeth Whitman is a popular tourist attraction; “her grave was a popular destination for New England travelers, who beat paths to the far corner of Danvers’s Old South Cemetery through the entire nineteenth century.” (Waterman)
In 1831, Northern public opinion began to shift dramatically from passive abolition to a more unrelenting abolition movement. New abolitionists, propelled by William Lloyd Garrison and his publication of The Liberator, used heated rhetoric that called for an immediate end to slavery. In tandem with thought provoking memoirs, written by slaves who escaped servitude, Northern society began to perceive slavery as the ultimate sin. One such memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, written by Solomon Northup, vividly describes the horrors and brutality many enslaved men, women, and children were subjected to. Northup described the heartland of the Deep South, Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana as a region that made it pure folly for those enslaved to attempt to escape bondage, generated a plantation society built upon cash crop production, which galvanized their position in plantation society, and introduced a unique social and political dynamic between slaves and non-white neighbors.
A Gathering of Old Men by Earnest J. Gaines is a great novel about race relations in the south. The novel begins with a child narrator who relates the report that there has been a shooting on a Louisiana plantation, and a white, Cajun farmer Beau Boutan, is dead. He has been killed in the yard of an old black worker, Mathu. Because of the traditional conflict between Cajuns and blacks in South Louisiana, the tension in the situation and the fear of the black people is immediately felt in the novel. I would definitely recommend this book to someone else.