The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh Essay

Even though it doesn’t seem like it, Patsy and Joby have a very important thing in common. It is the main emphasis in their stories. They are both very ambitious in accomplishing a certain goal, even though not shown in the beginning of “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”, Joby does not understand how his role as a drummer boy is an important part of the war, until the general gives him a motivating monologue on how if he ever played his drum the wrong way, it could mess everything up. We assume he starts to become motivated and determined to do his job as a drummer boy. In “The Finish of Patsy Barnes”, Patsy’s mother, Eliza becomes ill and since they are from African-American descent and are currently struggling with poverty, Patsy becomes motivated to ride a horse, that is presumably wild. He does this just to get the money that is enough to save
For Joby, since his story takes place during the civil war, the main thing him and everybody else around him are afraid of is dying. The drummer boy has to worry about that more than the other soldiers because they are trained soldiers who have been taught to defend themselves. Each of them have at least one weapon. All Joby has is a hollow shell with a drumhead stretched over one or both ends that he uses sticks to beat it with. “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” doesn’t give a specific year, it just explains that it takes place during the late 1800s. However, during this time, people discriminated against people who were poor and people who appeared to have darker-pigmented skin. Since Patsy and his mother were both and she became ill, Patsy had to find a way to help her, in that way, he not only rode a horse, he also found a way to be self-sufficient which is important because in the beginning of the story, it seems he always depends on his mother because she claims she tries to do as much as she can for