
Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: 1997, Grove/Atlantic
Lexile Measure: 1210L
Classification: Fiction
Summary:
Cold Mountain is a novel (later turned into a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Renee Zelweger, and Jude Law) set in the south in 1864. Its two main characters, Inman and Ada, were falling in love as the war started. Inman served in the war, was injured, and deserted the army to reunite with Ada. After leaving the military hospital through a window, he began a long walk back to North Carolina to find Ada on her farm. Ada, meanwhile, was left on the farm alone after her father died. Ada was an educated, genteel woman from Charleston with virtually no practical skills or ability to fend for herself. Luckily for Ada, a neighbor realized her plight and sent a local girl named Ruby to help her. Ada and Ruby became friends and set about running the farm on their own. As Ruby taught Ada how to care for the farm, Ada reconnected with the physical world around her.
Cold Mountain goes back and forth from Ada and Ruby’s story to that of Inman’s odyssey home. Along the way, he meets a variety of characters (many unsavory). These include an adulterous minister who impregnated his lover and intended to murder her, a man who invited Inman to his home, drugged him and forced Inman to marry and have sex with the man’s sister before turning him over to Federal soldiers, as well as gypsies, an old hermit, a widowed woman, a kind slave, and a cruel band of Federal soldiers who steal from, abuse, and execute those around them.
Publisher: 1997, Grove/Atlantic
Lexile Measure: 1210L
Classification: Fiction
Summary:
Cold Mountain is a novel (later turned into a motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Renee Zelweger, and Jude Law) set in the south in 1864. Its two main characters, Inman and Ada, were falling in love as the war started. Inman served in the war, was injured, and deserted the army to reunite with Ada. After leaving the military hospital through a window, he began a long walk back to North Carolina to find Ada on her farm. Ada, meanwhile, was left on the farm alone after her father died. Ada was an educated, genteel woman from Charleston with virtually no practical skills or ability to fend for herself. Luckily for Ada, a neighbor realized her plight and sent a local girl named Ruby to help her. Ada and Ruby became friends and set about running the farm on their own. As Ruby taught Ada how to care for the farm, Ada reconnected with the physical world around her.
Cold Mountain goes back and forth from Ada and Ruby’s story to that of Inman’s odyssey home. Along the way, he meets a variety of characters (many unsavory). These include an adulterous minister who impregnated his lover and intended to murder her, a man who invited Inman to his home, drugged him and forced Inman to marry and have sex with the man’s sister before turning him over to Federal soldiers, as well as gypsies, an old hermit, a widowed woman, a kind slave, and a cruel band of Federal soldiers who steal from, abuse, and execute those around them.
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Language:
Drug and Alcohol Use: Cold Mountain contains few references to illegal drug use, although a man who then turned him in to the Federal soldiers drugged Inman.
Violence and Crime:
Sexual Content: Cold Mountain contains little in the way of sexuality.
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