Commentary for Soldier’s Heart

Commentary for Soldiers Heart Author, Gary Paulsen The curb Soldiers Heart, is based on a true report card virtually a fifteen-year-old boy in Minnesota created, Charley Goddard, who lies about his era to join the First Volunteers of Minnesota to fight in the cultured War. well-nigh of the events and snip sequences are not completely factual, besides the essential elements of the books written report are true. Charley Goddard is a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in the floriculture community of Winona, Minnesota, in 1861, just prior to what will become the Civil War. The whole are is talking about what they think will be a shooting warfare. The atmosphere at the town meetings discussing the possibility is festive, with flags, and drums, and loyal speeches. As a volunteer army is beginning to form, Charley decides he wants to be a part of it. Everyone assumes that it will be an easy, victorious booking, most in all likelihood over in a month or two, if it happens at all. Charley lies about his long time and joins the volunteers in what he thinks will be a looseness experience that will make him a man. The pay is eleven dollars a month, much more than he makes working on the farm. Charley trains and learns to be a soldier.Upon leaving the bivouac, the mean are treated as heroes even before circulate they leave town, accompanied by much cheering and flag waving. Charley feels great, and spirit are high. However, not long after, he finds himself in his first skirmish. The coalescence soldiers lose badly. He is caught in the middle of violent suffering and death, and he cannot believe what is happening so suddenly all around him. When the battle is over, hundreds of his comrades had been killed, and Charley and the some other survivors are stunned. It is eventually named the Battle of Bull Run. A camp is created near Washington and eventually reaches ninety thousand men.Charley becomes part of the sidereal day to day routine of the camp. He and others forage the farms in the area for feed and eventually build log houses to live in during the approaching winter. However, many an(prenominal) men get diseases such as dysentery and die in the camp. During the time here, Charley participates in one nearby battle against the Rebel Soldiers. The federation wins, but not without losing many men. One of them is a man whom Charley befriended only hours before. His name is Nelson, and he is shot in the stomach. Nelson knows the surgeons do not have the skills or time to mend his wound and that he will be left over(p) to die.As a result, he kills himself on the battlefield as the other soldiers leave for the return march to the camp. Charley takes part in a battle near Richmond, Virginia where the Confederate Army uses its mounted calvary to mien Charley and the Union soldiers. Nearly one hundred men on horseback charge six hundred foot soldiers. Charley and the others are told to shoot the horses in our to thwarting the cavalr y, and they do so, killing every horse and man. Next, Charley participates in the Battle of Gettysburg, the last(a) battle of the war. Here he has the protection of rocks, and logs, and a large personnel office of artillery behind him.Most of the charging Rebel soldiers are killed in the lines as they attack, but some eventually get close. Charley participates in a hand to hand battle with bayonets. He is finally wounded, and after being uneven up as well as possible, he is sent plateful to Minnesota. Charley is a broken man in Winona, Minnesota. He can but walk with a cane. He constantly passes blood, and his mental health has been abnormal severely. He contemplates suicide but he decides to hold on to his dreams of the war a while longer. He later dies of complications of the war wounds at the age of 21.