Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Shot 3 Times, Still Lives

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
p.370-390

Okay, in my previous blog I told you that Stobrod, Pangle, and the Georgia boy was shot. I take that back. The Georgia boy was not shot because he wasn't with them when The Guard showed up. I do not know where he was though. He was close enough, however, to hear everything that was said and done. Where was he? What was he doing to make him not be present at the massacre? Why didn't he jump in to try and save his buddies? I realized that he did not die because he was talking to Ada and Ruby about how Stobrod and Pangle lay dead up in the mountains. Ada and Ruby packed up to go find and bury them. It was winter out! Anyways, they made it to the place where the men were shot and found only Pangle. They found Stobrod underneath an overhung cliff with three wounds and still breathing. He was barely alive. How he survived? I have no idea. One of the bullets got lodged in his back and Ruby cut into him with a knife to get it out. They then strapped Stobrod to the horse and took him to an old, abandoned community of huts to rest.

 This is about how big the bulge in his back would have been from the bullet round lodged in his back.


This picture resembles that Ada and Ruby could not find Stobrod so they had to go look for him and Ada found him under a ledge, still alive!

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