Essay On Life After War

Following the war, life would change for everyone. At any point during the war, one’s life could be flipped around backward and then some. A good life before the war did not mean you were going to continue to have a good life after the war. Depending on who you were before the war, you may live an easy life or you may have many new stresses. Some people’s lives had completely flipped around and sometimes, they were not ready for the change that was going to happen, but other individuals that were affected by the war were able to handle their new stresses with ease. Whether you were ready or not had no effect on how fast these changes would happen, though. In the novel, A Year in the South written by Stephen V. Ash, the author writes about the individual’s stories of four people and how their lives were near the end of the war and how each had continued to live during the time following the war. Transitioning into their new, post-war lifestyles was harder for some of the individuals than others. Where one had lived and how they …show more content…
Ash showed this using Robertson, who, a year after the war was still scared and needed to leave town. Ash chose to shed light on some great individuals who really gave us a sense of what life was like following the Civil War. This made reading the book a lot more interesting for me. The book was not a summary of the civil war, it was a story of these people and who they had become following the war. Ash’s novel also illustrated that life was not dictated by whether you were black of white following the war; each person had their own equal shot at life. Being black did not make your life a bad one, just as much as being white did not make your life a good one. This seemed to be a first. Before the war, life was what it was because of the color of your skin, but not anymore. Lou’s life was a lot better than Cornelia’s