ipl-logo

Analysis Of Robert Penn Warren's Wilderness: A Tale Of The Civil War

688 Words3 Pages

It seems that only a few individuals are able to consistently amaze and inspire others through literature. Poets are often these people as their creativity infatuates the readers and can portray a unique scenario meticulously. Robert Penn Warren was such a man. His ability to see things from different perspectives is why he is one of the best poets. One perspective change that was unique was his novel, Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War. This novel was about a boy named Adam Rosenweig, a German Jew living in a ghetto that was within a province named Bavaria. While living in this community with his father and uncle, he develops a hatred for it as the anti-Semitism within his community continues to grow. Eventually, Adam decides that he must escape this prison of hatred and confusion and travel to America so that he may fight for the North in the Civil War. During his voyage to America, he crippled his ankle issuing an even more difficult journey and may not even be able to fight due to the injury. After the long tiring travel, Adam arrives in New York during the worst possible scenario, the anti-draft riots. These riots were provoked by the government issuing a draft for all men between the ages of 20-45. The rioters of this event were primarily Irish American working class citizens. Being the poorest or …show more content…

The reason for racism often is an individual not seeing beauty in the other, and this is why the New York draft-riot was such an important aspect of his distance traveled. Another symbolic scene in the novel was inside the Wilderness on the southern bank of the Rapidian River. When Adam was forced into killing the confederate outcast (who was wearing union soldier boots) it was then that he realized he did what he had to, and understands where he wants to be. He is able to finally step out of the wilderness into society, metaphorically and

Show More
Related

  • Prisoner B 3087 By Alan Gratz Sparknotes

    1011 Words  | 5 Pages

    Also, the main character is a teenager as he enters the camps like Eliezel. Like Eliezel, he tries to be as kind as he can but struggles with the horrors of the camps. Like the Gruener family survive in cramped spaces and many deportations. Both books find that luck finally runs out.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Theodore Boone The Fugitive By Theodore Boone

    239 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the book, Theodore Boone The Fugitive, the main character 's name is Theodore. Theodore is brave, smart, courageous, and funny. His main intention during the story is to put a murderer, Pete Duffy, behind bars. Some devices used by the author are metaphors, personifications, and similes. The other book, The House of Hades, has a main character named Percy.

    Read More

  • The Role Of The Regulator Movement And Land Riots In Colonial America

    815 Words  | 4 Pages

    These riots were usually formed by the poor colonists that felt that the distribution of land between one another was unfair and unequal. The wealthy were able to get large pieces of land while poor colonists did not even have the access to these lands. This caused an uproar between the many colonists. The poor colonists believes that through their actions they were attempting to show the government that their rights should not be ignored and that the people of power that the government should be seeing the problem of the unfair treatment being presented to the colonists who should have just as fair of a right of land that wealthy colonists

    Read More

  • On The Draft Riots Of 1863

    369 Words  | 2 Pages

    This part of the documentary on the draft riots of 1863 really enlightened me and informed me to things that I did not know about. The draft riots of 1863 actually lasted four days. The reason why these riots were happening was because of the three hundred dollars they had to pay if they did not want to participate in the draft. People could not afford to just shell out three hundred dollars. Some people, back in those times, were only paid five hundred dollars a year.

    Read More

  • The Perception Of Wilderness By George Cronon

    297 Words  | 2 Pages

    The perception of wilderness can be problematic. One of the most prominent points that Cronon made in his evaluation is the ideology that wilderness is an illusion to escape reality. This perception can be ambiguous because it segregates humanity from nature, by establishing the idea that wilderness is separate from everyday life. Also, Cronon calls attention to the issue of dividing the land and calling it wilderness. The issue of this isolation is that it disintegrates humans and nature, rather than bringing them more in unity.

    Read More

  • Night By Ruc Ruch Chapter Summaries

    565 Words  | 3 Pages

    The story begins with Georg Rauch getting drafted into the German Army of the Nazi party. It’s pretty uncomfortable for him, and he tries all he can to be released by the military. From disobeying to outright telling his superiors that he is a quarter Jew. I wish I read more of the book. I just cannot find it as interesting as I thought I would.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Trouble With Wilderness By William Cronon

    90 Words  | 1 Pages

    In his 1995 essay “The Trouble with Wilderness,” William Cronon declares that “the time has come to rethink wilderness” (69). From the practice of agriculture to masculine frontier fantasies, Cronon argues that Americans have historically defined wilderness as an “island,” separate from their polluted urban industrial homes (69). He traces the idea of wilderness throughout American history, asserting that the idea of untouched, pristine wilderness is a harmful fantasy. By idealizing wilderness from a distance, he argues that people justify the destruction of less sublime landscapes and aggravate environmental conflict.

    Read More

  • Diction And Imagery In Robert Penn Warren's Evening Hawk

    600 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his pom entitled “Evening Hawk”, Robert Penn Warren characterizes human nature by a transition between the flight of the hawk during the day and that of the bat, or the “Evening Hawk” during the night. The hawk, as it soars in daylight, portrays how humans appear in clear light of their peers, while the bat, cruising the night sky, symbolizes what humans hide within themselves. Warren effectively expresses the meaning of this poem and its serious mood by the use of diction and imagery to appeal to the reader’s perception of sight and sound. Throughout the first part of the poem, Warren describes the journey of the hawk in the daytime to symbolize how one’s character may seem to other beings.

    Read More

  • New York Draft Riot Essay

    1967 Words  | 8 Pages

    The New York Draft Riots were one of America 's most decimating mobs. It started as a gentle rally against the national draft, however, turn took a more terrible as it turned out to be all the more a racial battle. In the book, The Gangs of New York, Asbury gives an exceptionally top to the bottom depiction of the New York Draft Riot. As indicated by Asbury, "The battling seethed through the road of New York City from Monday to Saturday, it had started as a dissent against the Conscription

    Read More

  • Justice Theory In Elie Wiesel's Night

    1122 Words  | 5 Pages

    Night is told from the first person perspective of a twelve year old Jewish boy. In Night, Jews were discriminated against, captured and sent to concentration camps. Families were separated, women and children were killed and men played a game of survival of the fittest, in hopes of seeing better days. The “strongest” got to stay alive and were moved to another concentration campus, which might have been worse than the last, while the weaker ones were killed. Justice was presented at the advantage of the stronger in this novel because eventually Eliezer, the narrator was freed and able to account the horrible story of previous happenings.

    Read More

  • The Chrysalids Argumentative Essay

    2488 Words  | 10 Pages

    This novel is considered an allegory of the Holocaust. There is a similar chain of events leading to disarray when one race thinks it is superior to another. It teaches the danger of discrimination and superiority which results in eradication

    Read More

  • The Fury: The Influence Of Bruno's Life In Germany

    392 Words  | 2 Pages

    The overview of this book starts off with a young 9 year old boy called Bruno who lives in Germany with his brothers and sister and his parents, who one day coming home from school sees his former use t be maid move out along with his mom and the rest of his family and it was all because of Bruno’s father who is in the army for the Germans and is being controlled by dictator Adolf Hitler who in the book is known as “ the Fury” and because of the orders of Hitler the father was forced to move from Berlin to Auschwitz , which was a very hard stage for Bruno and his family. Bruno had to leave his friends and meet new ones where he was at. Bruno’s life is very hard at where he lives at right now and ever since his dad was ranked up to commander

    Read More

  • The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Literary Analysis

    1004 Words  | 5 Pages

    This book tells the story of a boy named Bruno, who moves to a house just outside of Auschwitz after his father, a high ranking Nazi officer, gets a new job. Bruno is fascinated by the people ‘in striped pajamas’ on the other side of the fence. One day, Bruno summons the courage to go up to the fence and forms a strong bond with a Jewish

    Read More

  • Maus And Life Is Beautiful: A Literary Analysis

    1208 Words  | 5 Pages

    The novel is a narration from a survivor of the Holocaust as

    Read More

  • Theme Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

    858 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the novel, racism is most prevalent when Atticus takes up a case where a African-American man has been accused of raping a white girl, and Atticus is fighting for Tom Robinson who is the accused rapist. Tom Robinson, the kindly, meek and physically disabled black accused of the rape, is the target of innumerable racial taunts and is regularly referred to by angry white town folks as a “nigger.” Later, in scenes involving Tom Robinson and the angry white mobs that aim to lynch him that reveal

    Read More

More about Analysis Of Robert Penn Warren's Wilderness: A Tale Of The Civil War

Open Document