Dec 27, 2009

Cold Mountain | Summary

the shadow of a crow
Cold Mountain opens in late summer as Inman, a Confederate soldier, lies wounded in a hospital after being hit in the neck during a battle near Petersburg, Virginia. As he does each morning when he wakes, Inman stares out a large open window in front of his bed, imagining scenes from home.

Inman watches a blind man who sells peanuts and newspapers from a cart outside the window. He is surprised to find out that the man has been blind since birth and not through “some desperate and bloody dispute.” When Inman comments on the...