Solomon Chandler's April Morning

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What if you had a state of mind where you took pleasure “n killing people? Would you be opposed to people who did not think the same way as you? Solomon Chandler is a very tall man and he is skinny. He has a long face, and a hooked nose with a broken yellow smile. Solomon’s hair was as white as could be and he had numerous amounts of freckles. He was the ugliest man Adam had ever seen (Fast 114). The story April Morning takes place during the battle of Lexington in 1961. Solomon Chandler is compassionate, knowledgeable, and irrational.
In the beginning of the novel Solomon Chandler was compassionate. Solomon meets Adam Cooper during the war. Adam was running away from the war because he was scared and did not have anywhere else to go. Solomon was there for …show more content…

well actually Solomon gets quite violent to tell the truth. Solomon is a round character and encounters conflict throughout the novel and is changed by it. He is dynamic and is constantly changing. Near the end it is almost like he is self-destructing. He is wanting to kill people for pleasure like it is a fun game, the situation is disgusting and Adam changes his perspective on Solomon all around. Adam voices that, “ Solomon Chandler was one of them, but I no longer felt any warmth toward the old man. I would kill and he would kill, but he took pleasure in the killing.” (Fast 150). Why the man took so much desire for killing people will forever be unknown, but he made it very clear that your state of mind makes killing people possible not your courage. Solomon declares, “It takes no courage to fire a gun and to kill, merely a state of mind that makes the killing possible…” With that I think you can conclude that Solomon became very psychotic near the closing of the novel and its unknown why this man took so much inclination in killing his own kind but its sick and

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