One day, he discovers that an army convoy is passing through the area.
In an act of hatred, they set fire to the Brabsons’ shed and threaten to burn their house down.Įven though Jethro is fighting for the Union, Brabson cannot help but hate the Union for the toll it took on his family. Jethro’s enlistment in the Union incites the rage of the Brabsons’ neighbors. He realizes that war cannot be understood in moral absolutes instead, it is a complex system of motivations and affinities that are often at odds with the aims of the war itself. Knowing that his neighbors deeply support the Confederate Army, Brabson is forced to question the morality of the partisan logic driving the Civil War, as well as the beliefs of both the Yankees and Confederates. Meanwhile, Brabson’s brother, Jethro, is in his first months of enrollment in Tennessee’s branch of the Union Army. As a result, the family is underprepared for winter.
They also claim the Brabsons’ only horse, which is essential for driving the plow over their crops. Its cavalry soldiers, desperate for resources, claim the majority of the Brabson family’s food supplies, which are being stockpiled for the coming winter. Brabson’s routine family and work life are suddenly upended when the Union Army advances over the area. It describes Brabson’s life in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, an area relatively untouched by civilization except for small farm developments. The novel begins near the beginning of the Civil War. The novel was awarded the Newbery Honor, one of the highest prizes in literature, for its vivid characterization of the intersections of adolescence, rural domestic life, and civil war. Compelled to help the Confederate Army to avenge his family’s exploitation, Brabson becomes conscious of a war bigger and more complex than the one he first imagined. When the Union Army’s frontier advances over Tennessee, appropriating his family’s critical supplies, they struggle to survive the winter. Steele’s historical fiction, The Perilous Road (1958), follows a boy named Chris Brabson who lives with his family in a rural area in the mountains. Set in Eastern Tennessee during the American Civil War, William O.
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