The Animals of Cold Mountain
The characters in Cold Mountain are often hard to identify with as they are from the past and have experienced vastly different situations than the people of today. In order to make the characters feel more relatable Charles Frazier, the author of the book, utilizes the motif of insect animal and nature appearances. Frazier integrates the motif into his book with imagery and uses the animals as symbols for the reader to identify with.
The first appearance of the motif is on the occasion that Inman is suffering for the same reason that the flies are thriving. While both Inman and the flies are trapped in the hospital, the flies came of their own volition. The flies swarmed around him, to his wound, “he flapped the …show more content…
Monroe recounts of his story of Claire and courtship to Ada. When he found Claire, Monroe was on a “great Hanoverian gelding” with a canter that “was a thing of wonder” He rode this horse in order to meet Ada’s mother and then away when he found that she had been with someone else (Frazier 196). The horse was beautiful just as Monroe had found Claire. The horse had a smooth walk and was a great pleasure. The gelding was just like Claire. When he ran away from Claire he was on the gorgeous horse and basically used all the horses strength and made him unable to ride the horse in the future. By running away Monroe had ruined the horse and ruined his chances with Claire.
With the motif of animal, plant and insect appearances in Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier has made the characters more relatable. Frazier made Inman seem less hardhearted, Ruby less unapproachable, and has made Ada mind more open to the reader. He also incorporated the motif into characters such as the goat women who had a justified reason for killing a goat, and Monroe who ruined both his relationship and a horse. Without the motif the reader would have never known these things in regards to these well-developed
The characters in Cold Mountain are often hard to identify with as they are from the past and have experienced vastly different situations than the people of today. In order to make the characters feel more relatable Charles Frazier, the author of the book, utilizes the motif of insect animal and nature appearances. Frazier integrates the motif into his book with imagery and uses the animals as symbols for the reader to identify with.
The first appearance of the motif is on the occasion that Inman is suffering for the same reason that the flies are thriving. While both Inman and the flies are trapped in the hospital, the flies came of their own volition. The flies swarmed around him, to his wound, “he flapped the …show more content…
Monroe recounts of his story of Claire and courtship to Ada. When he found Claire, Monroe was on a “great Hanoverian gelding” with a canter that “was a thing of wonder” He rode this horse in order to meet Ada’s mother and then away when he found that she had been with someone else (Frazier 196). The horse was beautiful just as Monroe had found Claire. The horse had a smooth walk and was a great pleasure. The gelding was just like Claire. When he ran away from Claire he was on the gorgeous horse and basically used all the horses strength and made him unable to ride the horse in the future. By running away Monroe had ruined the horse and ruined his chances with Claire.
With the motif of animal, plant and insect appearances in Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier has made the characters more relatable. Frazier made Inman seem less hardhearted, Ruby less unapproachable, and has made Ada mind more open to the reader. He also incorporated the motif into characters such as the goat women who had a justified reason for killing a goat, and Monroe who ruined both his relationship and a horse. Without the motif the reader would have never known these things in regards to these well-developed