Four Hundred Word Essay On Soldier's Heart By Gary Paulsen

Soldier's Heart Essay

I will be doing a four hundred word essay on the book “soldier's Heart” that was assigned to us in class. The book was written by Gary Paulsen, the author of soldier's heart. The book genre is nonfiction since it was based on how the war was at the time this war was being fought, But at the same time it was a little bit of historical fiction since the book wasn't exactly the same as the war was. The main character Charley Goddard was a real person. He enlisted in the army for the first Minnesota volunteers when he was only fifteen years old. He was one of many teenagers and underaged men who signed up for the war at young age. He lied about his age so he could join and he fought through virtually the entire war. The main
He did not want to be a Drummer or a runner boy because he only wanted to be a man and a soldier.when he left home and went to the soldiers living camp he saw right away that the living conditions were tough at the camp with low food supplies and tight quarters. The food that the I would definitely not want to have to eat that same meal everyday. the gun that Charley and the other soldiers were issued was a single shot musket rifle that you had to open a cartridge and fill it up with gunpowder and press the bullet down with a ram rod. A good shooter could shoot the musket accurately three times in a minute. modern day rifles are much better than how they were back then. The battles in the book were usually in a open field and they would just line up and shoot at each other. But that's just how they fought back then. Charley and his fellow soldiers were paid ten dollars every month. Charley kept a little money for himself and sent the rest back home to his family. There was a person that would come with baked goods and sell them to the Charley and muffins and cookies and stuff. Charley right away bought a apple pie since the other soldiers for about fifteen cents a good. the goods were pies and he had not