Thursday, March 11, 2010
"The Killer Angels" Review
I can honestly say I have never read a 365 page book about one battle. Shaara does a great job putting the battle into fiction so I could understand it. I learned a lot about the leaders and that is what I enjoyed the most. On page 364, it states, "Well, nobody ever said they wasn't good soldiers. Well, they're Americans anyway, even if they are Rebs." Truly, we as human beings are more alike than we are different. As a teacher I am always trying to build on common ground and with the principle, we are more alike than different. I enjoyed learning about Robert E. Lee especially. I have a greater understanding of the leaders and the battle. This books depicts the men who fought this battle had great respect for one another. They both were fighting for their "Cause." Whatever that "cause" might have been!
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I like the way you brought out that we are more alike than we are different. I always assumed that the leaders of the South were evil men who wanted to keep slavery at all cost. I was truly ignorant. By the time the book was ending I didn't want either team to lose. I felt that the leaders on both sides were good guys trying to do a good thing for the right reasons.
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