Soldier's Heart (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Paulsen
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, War fiction, Novella
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Civil War, War, Death or dying, Soldiers, Minnesota
- Locales: Minnesota
Soldier's Heart deviates from Paulsen's other work as it does not directly have autobiographical analogues to his own life. However, it is partially modeled on the real-life exploits of Charley Goddard, a Minnesota farm boy who decides to enlist in the Union Army during an earlier point in the Civil War.
Therein, the story itself does have biographical tenets, but the narrative distances itself from Charley (as Charley does from others during the war) by unabashedly looking at his naïveté and romanticism surrounding the conflict. He enlists thinking that this shooting...
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