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Book Report Soldier's Heart By Gary Paulsen
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart. Dell Publishing, September 8, 1998. Print.

The novel I read is titled Soldier's Heart written by Gary Paulsen.The book consisted of 128 pages which seemed to be a fairly easy read in my opinion. Soldier's Heart is a historical war novel that is based on a true story of a boy who joins the Union Army. Gary Paulsen writes about his main character that takes you on an adventure from Winona, Minnesota all the way to the battle fields of Gettysburg where the novel ends. The location is also spread across the United States cities such as in Chicago, St. Louis , many of the main battle fields of the civil war for example the Battle of Bull Run. The book takes place in a span of about seven years from 1861 through 1868 when the main character finally dies from earlier war related wounds that at the time were incurable.
The story of soldiers heart was written by Gary Paulsen, takes place during the American civil war. In this story the battles were fought in the original places of the war. This story is
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I believe that war destroys lives and Charley was lucky to survive the battles, but the aftermath of the war is what took a toll on him which caused him to die . Later it is noted that in the Battle of Gettysburg only forty-seven men were left standing of the original thousand soldiers in Minnesota's First Volunteers. Charley was not one of them. He was hit severely, and got patched up as best they could. He fought at later actions, but his wounds did not heal properly, nor his mental terror. The war finished and he tried to hold jobs, but he couldn't. He went running for county clerk based on his war record. He was elected, but before he could serve, his wounds and the stress took him and he died in December 1868 at the age of twenty-three years

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