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Summary: Solider's Heart
Review: I recently read Solider's Heart and loved it. It is not the best book I have ever read, but it is good. I liked it because of the realistic battles. It is about a young man going into war. It tells about his experiences and battlesofthe war.
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Summary: Soldier's Heart
Review: Soldier's Heart by Gray Paulsen is a good book.The book is about Charley Goddard who is a Union soldier. He is in many battles and he saw many people killed. Charley lives a hard life.He writes many letters home to his mother and brother. I liked the book because it is an easy book to read and it is interesting.The ending of the book is weird so watch out!
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Summary: Soldier'[s Heart
Review: I recently read the book Soldiers Heart by Gary Paulsen.I really enjoyed the book a lot. It was about a boy name Charley who lives through the exeriences of the civil war. It tells about his feelings and how he reacts to all of his surroundings. I'm not really into the whole civil war thing, but this book was still interesting to me. It might have been better if I was interested in the civil war though. My suggestions are to read it even if you aren't interested in the war. It's a whole lot more than that.
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Summary: Marvelous book
Review: Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen The book Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen is if not the best, one of the best books that he's written. This marvelous book shows us the life of a common soldier named Charley Goddard during the Civil War. Paulsen did a splendid job in describing all the characters and battles in this marvelous book
Charley is a seventeen year old boy who blinded by the parades and the pretty women waving at soldiers , lies about his age so he can go off to battle. His company spends 3 months training before they go off into their first battle. There, Charley and all the other young men realize what they've gotten themselves into, but they don't question their ideals and fight the best their bodies allow them to. At the end the number of casualties is massive, but Charley lives.
After that Charley 's company goes off into many of the most important battles of the Civil War. In their adventure they live many exciting experiences but they see many horrible things like guts coming out of a man and things like that . On one occasion poor unfortunate Charley is ordered to make a wall out of all the dead bodies from his unit to protect the wounded from the cold. This affects Charley very much and shows him that not everything was a parade. The battle of Gettysburg is where Charley lives his most horrifying moment during the war. The part I liked the best is when Charley has the night shift and he starts talking to a soldier from the South that is on the other side of the river and they talk to each other about why this war was happening and how sorry they were to have joined in.
This amazingly exciting book is historical fiction and I strongly urge you to read it for it will be one of the best experiences that as a reader you will have.
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Summary: A Great Civil War Story
Review: The best book I have ever read was Soldier's Heart. This book looked like a good book, so I read it. I read Soldier's Heart my seventh grade year. I would recommend the book to fourth graders on up, and people who studied the Civil War.
This book reminds me of my Uncle who fought in World War2. I've read a book about World War2 that was just like Soldier's Heart. I think if anyone reads this book he or she would like it
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Summary: Short but sweet
Review: As the title says, this book is short, but sweet. When somebody goes to war they usually come out wounded, if not physically, they mentally. The rare few people that come out remembering it as something that should not ever be does, but not psycologically wounded are said to have a soldiers heart. The main character of the book, Charley, has just that, a soldiers heart. The book starts off with charley at Massachusetts, he is 15, but he lies about his age to get into the army. The army is not just for the money and experience, for him it is trying to find his identity, he keeps asking himself if he is a man or not, yet once he gets to his first battle he realizes that it is a mistake, he soon learns not to make friends, because he's afraid of loosing them. This was a good book because it shows what life was really like in the Civil War. This book shows that the people in wars are not just unknown people who don't care about anything but their pride and country, they are people with family, and doubts, just like any of us. This book shows true values. Once you pick it up you get almost sucked in by the plot, and you cannot put it down until it is finished. Tjis book is very easy to get into.
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Summary: Hot of the dead mans Press
Review: The Book Soldiers Heart is a very good book. The suspence is really amazing. Gary Paulson just makes the words flow right. I really thought it was neat when the Union were forming a line of battle and the Rebels were charging. I also think that its neat the way the ambulance didn't pick up people with stomach wounds. This book is also good because its about a fifteen year boy who joins the Union to become a man. The fifteen year old tells the war in his eyes. Gary Paulson also did a very good job of describing the train that the soldiers took to the South. Also the time the Union had charged at the Reb's stockades and the Rebs were retreating. Another reason I liked this book is because of how intense it was. I also liked the blood and guts. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes the Civil War. That's one of the main reasons that I read this book. Hopefully by reading this review you will want to read the book Soldiers Heart.
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Summary: Horror of Combat
Review: Soldier's Heart is a historical fiction novel by Gary Paulsen. Paulsen focuses on one boys experiences during the Civil War. Fifteen year old, Charley Goddard, lies about his age so that he can join the First Minnesota Volunteers, which were part of the shooting war around 1861. Charley thought at first the shooting war was just an adventure. He later found out that the shooting war was actual combat on the front lines. Charley fought, battle by battle and literally saw the "horror of combat." This book was based on a true account of a soldier from the Civil War, which makes this book even more marvelous!! Soldier's Heart is a book for anyone, at any age level--It's truly a GREAT book!!
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Summary: War from one soldier's POV
Review: This was a neat book. Charley, the main character, told his story about what it was like fighting in the Civil War. There was some good insight from his perspective, but I think at least once in the book it should have said something about how weird it was to be fighting people from the same country you're from. Also, I think it should have said something about how it was wrong for him to lie about his age to enlist, because obviously, that age limit was there for a reason. It was a neat book overall, and it was interesting to see what the life of a soldier was really like.
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Summary: Soldier's Heart: Lessons of War
Review: Gary Paulsen's novel Soldier's Heart shows the horrors of war through the eyes of a teenager. The fact that the protagonist, Charley Goddard, was an actual soldier in the Civil War gives the work an added depth. The book opens in June, 1861 in the small town of Winona, Minnesota. Charley is 15, and eager to join the First Minnesota Volunteers so he can fight for the Union. The boy possesses nativity and innocence: he has only been within five miles of Winona and believes the "shooting war" will be "like a circus," even though he hasn't even seen one. The politicians and newspapers all say that the conflict would be over in a month or two; he expects to be home by fall. Though his mother tries to talk him out of it, Charley enlists telling officials he is eighteen. The first month or so is filled with drills, etc. and the boy writes to his mother how bored he is. When his train stops in Maryland a slave stops Charley to thank him for what he is doing, before she taken away by her master. Reality and maturity come quickly when he fights his first battle at Bull Run. Make it stop are the only words he can think as bullets are flying and men are being torn apart around him. Afterward, he thinks of running, but immediately dismisses the notion. As the novel progresses, Charley grows up and become increasingly negative. He becomes convinced that he will die in the next battle or two. Whereas he wanted to flee during his first battle, in a subsequent one he just "wants to kill them" before they kill him. Paulsen creates some interesting scenes such as when Charley strikes up a friendship with a Confederate soldier he secretly trades with at night, and the making of a wind breaker out the bodies of dead soldiers. It it is only at the infamous Battle of Gettysburg that not one but two bullets finally find Charley and with the "red veil" coming over his eyes he feels .... .... Paulsen has written an effective novel that shows the horrors of war without being unnecessarily graphic. Having had a father who endured the hell of World War II I felt special bond with Charley. If a teenager wants a real war book, or just a gripping novel, this is the one to read.
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