Brave Enemies essays

Brave Enemies essays In the novel, Brave Enemies, the setting is during the Revolutionary war, specifically the War in the South. This particular novels main character was a priest who believed war was wrong in every perspective. Towards the middle of the book, the priest and his wife (Josie, who dresses up as a man and joins the American military after she her house is burned by Tories and she fears she will never see her husband again) get separated and end up of opposite sides of the war. Since the priest is opposed of war the General for the British allows him to provide proper funerals and other religious needs for the British Army. Josie on the other hand is trained to fight for the American Army the best she can while keeping it a secret that she is a girl. Josies view on this part of the war is that the Americans should win and kill as many British as possible because the British destroyed her life. The thing she didnt know was that her beloved husband was being forced to preach for the British a nd was getting to know the British soldiers. She believed her husband to be killed by the Tories after they captured him. During one of the last battles during the war in the south, Josie lay in the mud of the end of a raging battle in which the Americans were victorious and many of the British lay dead around her. Josie was also during one of her first phases of labor. As she lay in pain on the ground, she began to hear the voice of a man who sounded exactly like her dead husband. As it turns out, it was her husband. He was preaching for the dead British soldiers. As he came closer to her he realized it was her wife who lay on the ground. Since Josie was now reunited with her husband all the things she was fighting for on the American side were now for no reason at all. This changed her view on the war completely. She realized that her husband was right about war in that all it does is take lives and tear people apart. ...