FINAL ESSAY

“With every great love comes a

great story“
Charles Fraizer,

Cold Mountain

Marina Tiro, prof.

Student:

Nejra Mujezin IVa

Mento
r:

Sarajevo, April 2016.

 MATURSKI RAD IZ ENGLESKOG JEZIKA

„Uz svaku veliku ljubav dolazi

velika priča“
Charles Fraizer,

Studengora

Predmetni profesor: Učenik:

Marina Tiro, prof. Nejra Mujezin, IVa

Sarajevo, april 2016. godine

 Contents:

1. 4

1.1. 5

2. Plot summary...........................................................................................................7

3.1. Cold Mountain: An American Odyssey................................................................18

4. Conslusion............................................................................................................20

4.1. Bibliography.........................................................................................................21

5. Comment……………………………………………………………………………….22
 -INTRODUCTION-

For my final esaay, at

the instigation of my
English peofssor and
because I saw film
earlier, I choosed book
Cold Mountain, which
was written by Charles
Fraizer. It is his first
book and it was published in 1997. by Atlantic Monthly Press.

I choose it because I am interested in history and fiction novels, like this one is. I
have to say that I am thrilled by the book, all the actions, dialogues, characters, how
author of the book includes some of his own family history. I read in his biography
that the main character of the book was his great-great uncle W.P. Inman, and I find
that really interesting.

I feel honored to present book like this, awarded by National Book Award for fiction.
At the beginning the reading and understanding the book was pretty difficult, but with
time and the more I read it came easier and more fascinating and more thought-
provoking.

I am also interested in American history and the plot of Cold Mountain is settled in
American Civil War, and it combines love and war. Main characters are in love, but
they are apart because Inman was in war, and Ada waits for him. Details of their
brief history together are told at intervals in flashback over the course of the novel. I
also choose it because it reminds me of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’, one of my favorite
books.

-Biography-

Charles R. Frazier is born on

November 4, 1950 in Asheville
in North Carolina. He is a best-
selling and award-winning
novelist. Charles’s childhood
was spent in the western North Carolina towns of Andrews and Franklin, but it was
the mountain near his grandparents, Cold Mountain in Pisgah National Forest, that
gave him the title of his first novel. He received his bachelor's degree from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973. His masters’ degree in
English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina in 1975. Charles
met his wife Katherine at American University of Sharjah, and married her in 1976.
Frazier's first work was a textbook, Developing Communication Skills for the
Accounting Profession, co-written with Robert Ingram. That book was published in
1980. Before completing his doctorate in American literature at the University of
South Carolina in 1986, he traveled and co-wrote a Sierra Club travel guide,
adventuring in the Andes, published in 1985. The same year his daughter named
Annie was born.

Frazier taught briefly at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving back to

North Carolina where he and his wife both taught at North Carolina State University.
Katherine, his wife talk him into quitting his job teaching English at North Carolina
State University, so that he can work full-time on his novel. Frazier showed his
unfinished novel to his friend and fellow North Carolina novelist, Kaye Gibbons which
resulted in the publication of Cold Mountain in 1997.
The plot of the book is based on a family story about his great-great uncle William
Pinkney Inman, Confederate soldier, and his journey home during the American Civil
War. Cold Mountain sold millions of copies. The book spent weeks on the New York
Times best sellers list, and won the 1997 National Book Award for fiction. In 2003,
a successful film adaptation of the book was released, which garnered seven
Academy Award nominations, and an Oscar for Renée Zellweger. She won Oscar
for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

In 2002, the publishing company Random House paid Frazier an eight million dollar
advance for the rights to his second novel. Thirteen Moons, a historical epic about
the North Carolina Cherokee, was published in 2006. Frazier partnered with
the Museum of the Cherokee Indian to launch the Yonaguska Literature Initiative to
preserve the Cherokee language and create a Cherokee-language translation
of Thirteen Moons, and other contemporary works. In 2008, he received the North
Carolina Award for literature.

Frazier's third novel, Nightwoods, set in 1960s North Carolina, was published in

2011. Its heroine is Luce, a woman suddenly responsible for her murdered sister's
children while a caretaker for an aging Appalachian lodge. In 2015 an opera named
Cold Mountain was realized.

His personal interests are reading, writing, music, mountain bike riding. Frazier
currently resides on a farm near Raleigh where he continues to write and raise show
horses.

-Plot summary-

The novel has 20 chapters and epilogue. A linear storyline is not maintained. The
narrative follows current events, and then stories within the characters’ memories
recount events of the past. The story begins with Inman lying in hospital Raleigh,
North Carolina, where he was recovering from a wound in his neck. The soldier was
very tired of fighting because he never believed in war. One day he spoke with a
blind man in front of the hospital and after considering the advice from a him and
moved by the death of Bails - men in the bed next to him, he decides to run off of
the hospital and return to Cold Mountain, and his beloved Ada.

At Cold Mountain, we meet another main character - Ada. She came there 6 years
ago with her father, but he died and their farm named Black Cove has been
neglected but is powerless to remedy the problem. But she is saved from her misery
by a homeless young woman named Ruby, who soon moves in with her. Together,
they clean the place up and return it to productivity. Ruby also teaches Ada how to
survive in these very different times.

Inman soon becomes aware of the Confederate Home Guard, who hunts down
military deserters from the Confederacy. He meets a preacher called Veasey. After
Inman remonstrate him, they travel together. They butcher a dead cow that had
fallen into a creek and the cow's owner, Junior, gives them away to the Home Guard.
They became prisoners and they had to march for days before the Home Guard
decides to simply shoot them because they thought that prisoners are "too much
trouble". Veasey steps out to try to stop them but they killed him .Inman survived
when he took a graze from a bullet that has already gone through Veasey, and they
thought he is dead too. The Guardsmen dig an inferior mass grave and Inman pulls
himself out, and some wild pigs helped him. He couldn’t bury Vesey, so he turned
him face down and continues on his journey to Cold Mountain.

His journey was rough; He faced hunger and an attempted armed robbery at a rural
tavern, even though he carried a LeMat revolver for protection. Sometimes civilians
who didn’t want to have anything with the war helped him and sheltered him.

He was helped by a woman who owns goats, who gave him advice and medicines to
finally heal his wounds.

Ruby had caught her father Stobrod stealing corn from the farm. He was
Confederate deserter, but captain Tague tracked them down and shoot them down.
One of deserters escaped the killing and he went to alert Ada and Ruby. They found
Satbrod barely alive and they helped him to recover.

When Inman arrived at Black Cove and found nobody there he set of to find Ada in
mountain. Soon After he began his search he found her hunting wild turkeys. They
both have changed, and Ruby was scared that Ada will dismiss her, because she
found her husband. Ada told her that she needs her as a Friend not as help. Ada and
Inman made love and they started to imagine their life on Black Cove after war.

After few days Ada and Ruby went back to farm. Inman and Stobrod went behind
them. Tegue and the boy he kept with him appeared. Inman killed Tegue but boy
shoot Inman. Ada heard the shoot and run back. Inman died in her arms.

Ada was left as a pregnant widow. She raised her daughter at Black Cove, where
she stayed and lived with Ruby and Stobrod. Ruby has married Reid-boy from
Georgia, and they had three children.
 -With every great love comes a great story-

-American Civil War-

In Cold Mountain Frazier uses imagery or sensory descriptions and he becomes

especially critical to his own writing style. This book takes place in a time and
location that is strange and imaginary to a modern-day reader. Frazier trough
Inman’s injury and his fatal destiny in one realistic way, and h draws us picture of
The Civil War’s carnage. Author also draws on other sensory details. It is really
special how he’s evoking the region’s music trough sound imagery.

The plot is set in 1864 in the fourth year of the Civil War. This epic novel has
followed people’s destinies trough troubled nineteenth- century of American history.
This was era of discord between North and South and this affected Inman
understands of the world and has resurrected his spiritual anxieties. Inman’s
experiences as a Confederate soldier has affected him a lot just as war affected
other characters like Ada or Ruby.
Frazier suggests that the war damaged Southerners both personally and politically.
Frazier’s characters are rarely supportive of one side or another. After three years of
conflict, many are disillusioned with what they consider to be the selfish motivations
of both sides. In particular, the inhabitants of Cold Mountain are presented as
guarded, insular, and narrow-minded.

Frazier examines the issue of slavery in the context of the war, but as a backdrop to
central events. The characters are racially diverse, but the novel tends to focus on
white society. Frazier incorporates the cruel treatment meted out to slaves by
Southern landowners into more general themes like human suffering and hope for a
better future. Frazier is more interested in Inman and Ada’s relationship to each
other and to the landscape than he is in the politics of the era, leaving us to decide
whether he shortchanges historical events.

The novel is most effective in capturing the spirit of two people searching for self-
knowledge and romantic fulfillment. Frazier used a context of a war as a backdrop to
central events. Even the fact that characters aree racially diverse, novel tends to
focus on white society. Frazier is more interested in Inman and Ada’s relationship.

The book is really good at presenting a view of nineteenth-century Americans’

relationship to the land. Frazier novel is set on a verge of a new era and Inman
symbolize the independence of spirit and dynamic will of those who will come later to
the West. Although the plot is set in the Civil War, Frazier’s novel deals primary with
the timeless search for self-realization.

“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they
stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”  1

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Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1997, pg. 237
-Every great love first starts as a great story-

Cold Mountain is a novel about two people who are in love, Ada and Inman. The
novel is focused on the life during the American Civil War. Inman fought on the side
of the South. The war is in its fourth year and Inman has already taken part in many
bloody battles like: Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg -
where he was wounded. Inman was aware of a fact when he gets better, and when
he is well enough he will be send back to battle. Inman was always watching trough
a hospital window looking in the mountains with a desire for his home town- Cold
Mountain.

 “Cold Mountain, all its ridges and coves and watercourses Pigeon River, Little East
Fork, Sorrell Cove, Deep Gap, Fire Scald Ridge. He knew their names and said
them to himself like the words of spells…”2

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Ibidem pg. 16
Every day ha was also watching a blind man who was selling peanuts, and Inman
was wondering why he is blind. One day Inman went out from the hospital to ask
blind man about his illness. He asked him what he would give for ten minutes of sigh,
blind man said that he would not give anything for something like that, because he
would not want something he will lose in ten minutes and that h would want to see all
bad things in this world like war, illness, sadness… That night Inman escaped from
hospital so he can go to his home- North Carolina and to his beloved Ada. On his
painful and dangerous journey he became aware he isn’t just physically wounded, he
was spiritually wounded. His nightmares prove that, his dreams about battles and
battlefield haunted him and left him spiritually empty inside. He met a lot of various
people whose lives were forever changed because of the war. That war was greatest
war in American history.

On other side we have Ada, she is a girl from a town, and she is in love with Inman.
She lives in fear that Inman won’t come alive, and she sends him a lot of letters and
he never replies, but that is because he only got three of them, and he replied on
them, and he told her:

"I am coming home one way or another, and I do not know how things might stand
between us. I first thought to tell in this letter what I have done and seen so that you
might judge me before I return. But I decided it would need page as broad as the
blue sky to write that tale, and I have not the will or the energy. Do you recall that
night before Christmas four years ago when I took you in my lap in the kitchen by the
stove and you told me you would forever like to sit there and rest your head on my
shoulder? Now it is a bitter surety in my heart that if you knew what I have seen and
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done, it would make you fear to do such again."

The last sentence has a really special meaning to me. Inman was afraid that Ada will
not be able to love him when he gets from a war, because of everything he has done
and everything that they past trough in those four years.
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Ibidem, pg. 23
4
Ibidem, pg. 20
Inman, recovering from his wound at the hospital, releases how the war has changed
him into a broken, empty man, skeptical of all that he once held to be true. He longs
to heal his spirit, and to do that he clings to the idea of Cold Mountain as a healing
place. On the beginning, he appears to be very sensitive to his surroundings as the
environment of the hospital seems to affect his feelings.

"Cold Mountain nevertheless soared in his mind as a place where all his scattered
forces might gather. Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but
he did believe that there is a world invisible to us. He no longer thought of that world
as heaven, nor did he still think that we get to go there when we die. Those
teachings had been burned away. But he could not abide by a universe composed
only of what he could see, especially when it was so frequently foul. So he held to
the idea of another world, a better place, and he figured he might as well consider
Cold Mountain to be the location of it as anywhere.” 4

Like I said Ada is girl from a town, and after a death of her dad, she has to take care
of his farm Black Cove. Her dad didn’t know how to take care of farm; he just liked
the idea of having it. She is living there alone and penniless, she feels desperate
because she doesn’t know how to care about the farm. The world she has been
raised to live in has disappeared. The woman she was doesn’t exist anymore. As
she struggles to find out who she is, Ada fixes on Cold Mountain as her anchor.

“The man had asked, why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer
had been, for the atmosphere.”5

"But still, outsider though she was, this place, the Blue Mountains, seemed to be
holding her where she was. From any direction she came at it, the only conclusion

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Ibidem, pg. 36
that left her any hope of self-content was this: what she could see around her was all
that she could count on.”6

She visits the Swangers and looks into a well to foretell her future. She sees a man
walking through the woods on a journey but does not know what this vision means.
The next day, Swanger sends a local girl named Ruby to help out on the farm. Ruby
and Ada become friends and Ruby helps Ada with her farm.

Meanwhile Inman was trying to find a food and a shelter, and only that he could
think were Ada, and the first time they met. They met after a church service, when
Inman got Sally Swanger to introduce him to Ada in exchange for clearing an acre of
Swanger land. Inman could think of nothing to say, however, when he actually stood
before Ada. On his journey the only three things that gave him strength were Ada,
Cold mountain and building a quiet life there together.

One of the characters that had a big influence on Inman was Veasey. He was a
preacher. A drugged, pregnant and almost dead girl was grateful of their meeting,
preacher was trying to throw girl into the Deep River, but Inman saves her from
Veasey and leaves him to face his punishment. Veasey had a really negative
influence on Inman. Veasey uses religion to justify his immoral acts. Veasey was
shot by the Home Guard, and Inman was watching that, and he was aware that he
should feel something, but he just can’t. He was a bit scared and he was wondering
if he will ever be able to feel horror or compassion again.

Than we can again get back to Ada and Ruby, they were functioning really well
together. The only problem was that Ada just didn’t used to get up early so that was
hard for her at the beginning. Ada’s could be said to be more poetic and romantic,
while Ruby’s is the realistic one, Ruby was like a man she was independent and
strong. Later on we meet Ruby’s father, Stobrod, he wants to prove to his daughter
that he is a changed man, but Ruby stays skeptical.

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Ibidem, pg. 62
 "She was young and wore a man's sweater over a long skirt and was about as
pretty as woman get to be. Something in the darkness of her hair or the way she
moved or the thinness of her fingers reminded him momentarily of Ada."7

This is when Inman meet gypsies and he was welcomed and fed there. He saw a
really beautiful dark-haired women but he makes no move because she reminds him
of Ada. He just goes to lie down to sleep, and to read some more Bartram, and to
think of Cold Mountain and of Ada. He has dreams of Ada that night and he was
promising her that he’ll never let her go.

After he left he met an old woman and she offered him shelter at her camp in the
mountains. He rested there for a while and the woman nursed his wounds. After that
he continued with his journey and struggle, and he met a man called Potts, who lead
him to a cottage that belonged to Sara. She was a young woman with a baby whose
husband died in battle. She was very brave, but despite her bravery, she was very
close to despair, she had nothing left, except her baby and few small animals. Sara
fed Inman mended his clothes. They talked about her life on that farm and his life
while he was in battle. Next day, after they woke up, Federals came to her farm and
started to torture Sara and her baby. It was very cold and Federals left her baby lying
on a snow, while they were trying to rape her. But Inman rescued them. He killed
three Federals

On Black cove gets interesting because Stobrod appears again, just this time with a
banjo player named Pangle. He asks for shelter at the farm and for food, despite to
Ruby’s annoyance, Ada agrees to help Stobrod, but he go away into the mountains
with a boy from Georgia to find their own camp. While they were going trough
woods Teague’s Home Guard appeared and they were looking for the mountain
cave. They saw Stobrod and Pangle and shoot them. Ruby and Ada found them the
following day and they thought they were both dead, but Ruby’s father was alive.
They buried Pangle and Ruby removed the bullet from her father and taked him to
an abandoned Cherokee village.
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Ibidem, pg. 122
On the other side Inman comes to Black Cove Farm and finds it empty with a
beautiful sight of Cold Mountain. Georgia boy told him that Ada has left to bury
Ruby’s father.

You know that my theme was about great love and great story, until now it was
mostly just a great story, but from now on great love comes around. Inman has
climbed to the mountain and he has found Pangle’s grave but lost Ada’s tracks in the
snow. He went around like he had no head, suddenly he heard the shots in the
woods and heads towards them, unsure what to expect. After a while he found her
and when h tried to approaches her, she didn’t recognize him and she held him at a
distance with her raised gun. When he saw h her dressed like a boy, he wasn’t sure
if it was here, but some feeling in him told him that was his beloved Ada. In that
moment he was filled with love. All he could say was “I’ve been coming to you on a
hard road and I’m not letting you go.” But not even after that sentence Ada, didn’t
recognize him, but that was something that we could expect, because he’s not the
same man anymore. Then he sadly turned to walk away, but something in his
movement waked up something in Ada’s memory, and she said his name relatively
shy. He turned away, he wanted to run into her arms, but he was really broken, and
he was barely standing and she could see that, she lead him back to the Cherokee
village.

"Then she went to Inman and knelt beside him. He lay with his face to the wall. The
bed of hemlock boughs smelled sharp and clean with the needless crushed under
him. She touched his brow, smoothed back his hair, ran her fingertips across his
eyelids, cheekbones, nose, lips, and stubbled chin. She drew back the blanket and
found that he had his shirt off, and she pressed her palm to the side of his neck, the
tight new scar of his wound. She ran her hand to his shoulder top and gripped him
tight and held him there. He woke slowly. He shifted in the bed and turned and
looked at her and seemed to understand her intent, but then, apparently without
willing it, his eyes closed and he slept again." 8

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Ibidem, pg. 416

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Ibidem, pg. 431
She missed every piece of him for those four years. But you know how they say that
time heals everything including great loves and great memories, but in this case that
time made two of these people just more in love, and they had enormous desire for
each other. They spent four days together at the Cherokee village, discussing their
feelings, past experiences, and plans for the future. They had decided that Inman will
walk north and surrender to the Federals, since the war will be over soon. While they
were lying down, they felt that a warm, dry cabin in its fold of the mountain is like a
safe heaven indeed and that day they made love.

On the fifth day, Stobrod was strong enough to travel. They had a plan, the plan was
that Ada and Ruby leave first for the farm and the men will follow. On the journey
back to Black Cove, the Home Guard attacked Inman and Stobrod. Inman killed all
the men except for Birch. He was Teague’s second-in-command. Birch seemed
powerless and scared, but he shot Inman before the Inman could attack him.

"Ada heard the gunshots in the distance, dry and thin as sticks breaking. She did not
say anything to Ruby. She just turned and ran. Her hat flew off her head and she
kept on running and left it on the ground like a shadow behind her." 9

Ada heard shots and she just turned away and ran. She was trying to find Inman,
she found first Ruby’s father. When she found her live h was barely alive and was
holding him in her lap as he was dying. She was looking down into his eyes,
smoothing back the hair from his brow and he was reaching an arm around to hold
her at the soft part of her hip. They tried to tell that they love each other, but for a
dying man it was really hard, he said it really quietly that he loves her and that h
died.

"A scene of such quiet and peace that the observer on the ridge could avouch to it
later in such a way as might lead those of glad temperaments to imagine some
conceivable history where long decades of happy union stretched before the two on
the ground."10

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In a brief epilogue ten years later, Ada, her nine year-old daughter and Ruby’s family
gather in the evening. Ruby has married the boy from Georgia, called Reid, and has
had three sons with him. The family sits down to eat. When the meal is over, Stobrod
plays his fiddle and Ada reads to the children.

After I finished reading a book and after I wrote all of this down, I’m kind of
speechless. I never read something like this; it combines a perfect storyline, and
describes a unique love story. There are so many elements that are important in this
book. For example a dark-haired woman is related to Ada, or crows, and what they
say about them. During Inman’s journey, Inman shows several views about crows.
At the beginning, he presents them as creatures related to death and sadness, but
when he is closer to Cold Mountain, his feelings about crows change. . I was
enchanted with Inman’s desire to become a crow in the sky in order to get liberty.

“And when his eyes were closed, he dreamed he lived in a kind of world where if a
man wished it he could think himself into a crow form, so that though filled with
dark error, he still had power either to fly from his enemies or laugh them away.” 11

In the end, I think that great love and great story must come together, or it’s like that
in this case. Inman and Ada’s love is really special, and everything that Inman did to
come to her is that great story, but what made me sad was the end of the book, I
was hoping that two of them will find each other and live happily ever after, you know
like in all other love books. But this is no ordinary love book, it is historical, political,
love book. Even he’s dead their love will live forever, and that is the best about this
book. I really like how people in the book are enchanted by a nature and how they
admire it.

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so
he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a
purpose. To clear space for something better.” 12

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Ibidem, pg.226

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ibidem, pg. 407
 -Cold Mountain: An
American Odyssey-
Cold Mountain is a true American War
Odyssey. This novel is a great modern
way of retelling of The Odyssey. The
author himself said that this is his try of
modern Odyssey. Although too much
can be made of the Homeric parallels,
they are obvious, and they echo through
the narrative. The author's Ithaca is
within Carolina Mountains and the goal
of his Odysseus, a wounded
Confederate soldier - Inman is to come
to his home – Cold Mountain. He wants
to get home and return to his home and to Ada, his Penelope, whom he intends to
make his wife.

The story and characters of Cold Mountain have certain similarities and parallels to
The Odyssey of Homer. Inman, just like Odysseus is a soldier who is trying to get
home Inman teaches the wayfarer more about himself. He meets other travelers who
threaten him, strangers who take him in and guide him, just like Odysseus did on his
way home. Ada is like Penelope, she faces problem of her own at home, and when
Inman/Odysseus arrives he find he finds suitors/Ruby vying for the attention of his
beloved one. In Could Mountain it is clear that Inman is Odysseus ant that Ada is
Penelope. Iliad tells us about the battles of Trojan War but The Odyssey is just like
Cold Mountain, and Odysseus just like Inman has desire for home. That desire is
central theme that ties together The Odyssey and Cold Mountain.

What is really interesting to me is a blind man from the beginning who was selling
peanuts, for which critics think, is Homer himself. That is one of the most interesting
facts that I read, I think that Frazier with a character of blind man wanted to give us a
hint that we can see and read his book like a modern Odyssey. Fidelity and loyalty
are also present in both books, because Inman just like Odysseus is loyal to his love,
and Ada just like Penelope patiently waits for her love. After years of waiting she is
still waiting for Inman just like Penelope did.

“And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use,
for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You
could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the
dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do
well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some
truth to tell...for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you
were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to
you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you
can choose to do is to go on or not. But if you go on, it knows you carry your scars
with you.”13

-Conclusion-

After reading a book like this you get impression that you’ve been with Inman trough
that entire he has been trough just like when you are reading about Ada or any other
character. You can read this novel in lots of way; it can be a historical novel,
because it has context in the Civil War. You can read it as love novel, because it
shows a great love of Inman and Ada. You can read it as novel of stream of
consciousness, because characters have lot of thoughts, and they are remembering
things from the past. That is that special thing about this book and how Frazier wrote

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it. After reading this book, I learned that no matter what is happening around you,
you can be happy, when love comes around not even war can stop it.

It is not just another novel about war, because when people think about war they
think about killing, or something even more brutal than that. But instead of that
Frazier focused to destinies of people and soldiers. Frazier's use of language in
recreating southern Appalachian speech patterns plays a key role in establishing the
book's setting. Rather than spell words phonetically, such as using "likker" for
"liquor," he attempted to recreate the "musical" quality of Appalachian speech
through rhythmic writing and language of the era. But everything has mistake, so
mistake in this book are too long descriptions, and some of them are really
unnecessary, some parts are too lengthy and needlessly.

“Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon...
What needs doing is mine to do.”  14

I think this is best quote in the book, because after I read it, I realized that only
person who can truly help you is you. So I think that we have to stay true to
ourselves.

-Bibliography-

Primary sources:

 Cold mountain, Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1997
 Hladna Planina, Charles Fraizer, Narodna knjiga Alfa, 2000.
 Kako nastaje naučno djelo, dr. Midhat Šemić, Svjetlost, Sarajevo,1977.

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Secondary sources:

 Cold Mountain (film), 2003

 http://www.encyclopedia.com/ads/enc_ggldefault_300x250.html
 http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Cold_Mountain_Frazier/Cold_Mountain
_Summary04.html
 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/coldmountain/themes.html
 http://classroom.synonym.com/stylistic-prose-techniques-used-cold-
mountain-19186.html
 http://www.historynet.com/civil-war

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