Time Enough For Drums Summary

Jemima Emerson, from Time Enough for Drums, goes through her life with ups and downs, like mine. She had the privilege to get educated, while many other girls may have not had that chance, by John Reid. She later got the chance to continue her life with John, and become his wife. Getting to the happiest parts of her life, she had to hit some downs. Her father as killed because of what the mother was doing in the war. Her mother went into a shock state and was not able to communicate for months. Jemima’s brothers went off to boot camp and war at such a young age to fight for Washington. While this was a fiction novel, I have seen these situations in my life as well. When I was six years old, my brother Marc, went to boot camp for the Marines. Even with my young age, I remember feeling down, because I could not see my eldest brother. Jemima missed her brothers, but understood, that they had to do what was right. I wrote Marc almost every …show more content…
Since then, he had to fly back and forth to train the new recruits, but has recently quit to care for his child. Recently, a close friend of mine, has joined the military, and I can see that their family is going through the same grief and pride that Jemima and I had to go through. He is younger than when Marc joined, but is around the same age as Jemima’s brothers for their training. He will soon come home, and will tell the stories that we all share. Time Enough for Drums was an exciting story, that had scenes that drew me in. While the story was not exact to how I experienced these parts, it helped me to see how others would, and to bring a new light. Fictional books do this to bring an alternate universe or life, and make it so others can see their life in it too. Jemima and I went through a hard process, but our families all became better people in the end. Time Enough for Drums let me take scenarios from my life and live it in a whole different