Last Fight; Out With a Bang

Cold Mountain
p.435-449
This was a good chapter to end the book on. Ada and Inman talked of their choices for the future: Inman returns to the Confederacy to fight, he hides out in the mountains at Black Cove, or he hikes across the border, signs the Federal's Oath of Allegiance, and returns after the war. They decided the last choice was the smartest and less dangerous plan. So, they left out for home. Ada and Ruby went first in case The Guard was out looking for Inman and Strobod. As Inman and Strobod followed behind at a safe distance, they greeted The Guard and their dogs in a clearing. Inman saw that there was no easy way out so he told Strobod, who was riding on the horse, to hold on and Inman hit the horse causing it to take off at a dead sprint. As he hit the horse, he grabbed his LeMat with his right hand and fired two shots spontaneously, one that dropped the oncoming dog and one that caught one of the guardsmen. The unoccupied horse stumbled into the other mounted guardsmen causing a chaos. Inman ran over to the group and shot two more guardsmen. He noticed that one fled to a thicket. Inman told the boy to come out and he eventually did, unintentionally thanks to the horse. As the horse ran to the other horses, the boy fell off and reached for his pistol. Inman, with his gun bore aiming at the boy, told him to put the gun down. Next thing he knows, Inman is on the ground as the boy grabs the other horses and takes off. Ada, having heard the gunshots, turns around and sprints to the scene. She finds Inman and holds him in her hands as he takes his last breaths. In the epilogue, I found out that the Georgia Boy who stayed at Ada's house is named Reid and he still lives there, because he is now married to Ruby. They have three children and they live with Ada in the house along with Strobod and Ada's daughter. Strobod still plays his fiddle at the fire and Ada still reads books to everybody.

This melting snow resembles the death of Inman.

If I ran away from the army and I saw a group of soldiers like this looking for me, I would be so scared and I would not know what to do. What Inman did was pretty brave. The fact that it was successful is sweet. If it didn't work, it wouldn't have been as cool.


I do recommend this book to anybody who wants to read an overall good book. It is an adventurous tale in which two lovers try to meet back up and when they do, their physical love ends but their mental love carries on.

Check out the trailer for the movie. Hopefully it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NveDcsO6DJ0