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Posted by Fish
on 8/4/2009, 9:49 pm, in reply to "if orry lived..."
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Even by the end of LOVE AND WAR novel, Orry was beginning to question the Confederacy and slavery. In fact, the second miniseries had portrayed Orry as more conservative than he was before his death near the end of the novel.
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: I have been re reading the N&S trilogy
: and I am about 100 pages into heaven
: and hell and this time around a
: thought came to me. I like the way
: coopers character changes through
: out the story. Starting out as a
: free thinking idealist who can’t see
: eye to eye with his father’s way of
: life, he then endured the tragic
: events that happened during the war
: that started his liberal decline
: slowly becoming more and more
: “southern” until you have the older
: bitter cooper that we know at the
: end of the saga.
:
: While reading the book again I
: thought about the things madalin was
: doing, starting the school to
: educate the newly freed slaves and
: so forth and writes it all in her
: journal to orry as if they are
: having a conversation. But I wonder
: how orry would have reacted to
: madalin’s actions had he lived.
: After all he is a “southern man” the
: fights he and George had over the
: slave issue even though orry knew he
: was right didn’t stop him from being
: defensive.
:
: I wonder that if orry had lived
: would he have acted similar to
: cooper? Isolated him self from the
: north and the hazards (it’s happened
: before the war) possibly quarrel
: with his wife because he can’t just
: throw away all his years of
: breeding. Of course orry would have
: eventually saw the error of his ways
: but I can’t help but feel that he
: would have not gone along as
: smoothly as madeiln writes to him in
: her journal
:
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