Cold Mountain Summary
Charles Frazier

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Cold Mountain Summary

Cold Mountain is the story of a wounded Confederate deserter's return to his home and the city girl who learns to live there on a farm with the help of a tough, capable, and independent mountain girl.

A gravely wounded Confederate soldier, a veteran of the savage Battle of Fredericksburg, writes from the hospital to the woman he left behind that he is coming home to her. Inman deserts, knowing that...

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Charles Frazier

1,537 words, approx. 6 pages

Charles Frazier's first novel, Cold Mountain, stunned the literary world, becoming a best-seller and winning the 1997 National Book Award. The work also grabbed the hearts of readers by telling, as Pe... Read more

Charles Frazier

4,175 words, approx. 14 pages

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain became a phenomenon when it was released in 1997, producing massive sales for its publisher, Atlantic Monthly Press, and eventually garnering Frazier the National Book ... Read more

Essays & Analysis (11)

Nature Used as Symbolism in "Cold Mountain"

729 words, approx. 3 pages

In the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, nature plays an important role throughout the book. Nature is used as symbolism and to foreshadow what will happen in the future. After Inman left the ... Read more

The Musical Score of Cold Mountain

1,436 words, approx. 5 pages

NOTICE: this is the key to numbers throughout the essay. I believe that score functions as 5 types, as taught to be by Dr. Jerome Kleinsasser. #1-transition from reality to fantasy #2-set the time ... Read more

Cold Mountain

1,249 words, approx. 5 pages

Brutal. Exquisite. Heartbreaking. Uplifting. Such opposites highlight the contrasting impressions created by Charles Frazier's Civil War novel, Cold Mountain. Frazier organizes his narrat... Read more

Cold Mountain: A Journey of Knowledge

788 words, approx. 3 pages

In Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain, he demonstrates how people go through tough situations every day and that sometimes you just have to have knowledge and use your intuition to help you make t... Read more

Cold Mountain Themes and Motifs

3,817 words, approx. 13 pages

Charles Frazier's novel, Cold Mountain, tells the heart-wrenching tale of two twenty year-olds and their separate lives during the Civil War. Ada and Inman, destined to be together, try to rebuild th... Read more

Cold Mountain: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

452 words, approx. 2 pages

Rich man's war but a poor man's fight? In the book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier shows that this statement is true. In any war as one may see it, it's always a rich man's war but a poor man... Read more

Blue Heron

836 words, approx. 3 pages

In Cold Mountain and "A Poem for the Blue Heron", tone is established in a multitude of ways. These two pieces of literature describe the characteristics and actions of a blue heron, both aiming for ... Read more

Issues of Class in the Film Cold Mountain directed by Anthony Minghella

1,149 words, approx. 4 pages

At the dawn of the Civil War, the issue of class festered behind the forefront of controversy. Southern society had long in place a hierarchical system of slaves, freed blacks, poor white farmers, ... Read more

Cold Mountain - the Journey and Rebirth of Ada Monroe

758 words, approx. 3 pages

The Journey and Rebirth of Ada Monroe Ada's life of high-privilege, status, and wealth have secluded her from the importance of nature and the effect it has on human life. In the past, she found com... Read more

Visual Images and Humor in "Cold Mountain"

2,047 words, approx. 7 pages

In this essay I am going to see how Charles Frazier's writing style creates images and humour and I will discuss the reader's perspective of the characters. Firstly, I will discuss how Frazier create... Read more

'Cold Mountain' Is Like Homer's 'odyssey'. Which Events Are the Same as in 'cold Mountain'

683 words, approx. 3 pages

Plan Based loosely on 'Odyssey' - tell the base of what the story is about and the basis of what cold mountain is about and 'Odyssey' is about (Inman making his way back to Ada, Odysseus returning to... Read more

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