Cold Mountain Chapter 19 Analysis of the far side of trouble Frazier opens his chapter with Stobrod waking up but falling back to unconsciousness because of his injuries from Teague and Inman following suit because of his fatigue Ruby and Ada are left to build a fire and cook on their own When Inman wakes up he assists the wounded Stobrod and goes to eat the chicken stew Ruby made Now alone with the new Ada he hasnt fully met he tries to bring up conversation Inman reads a passage from Bartrams
On the surface Cold Mountain is the tale of a man trying to find his way home However once looked at in more detail it is seen as a story of a man looking for faith From the very first step Inmans journey is one of faith a faith that he has lost in the Civil War and is on the road to recovering We know little of Inmans life prior to his journey but what we do learn tells us that he was at one point a Christian In his youth he had been taught and he believed in the basics of the Christian faith
Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination but more importantly through the journey they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment In Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at Although not physically starting a journey Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her Metaphorically she reaches Cold
Reality and Religion Ada begins to contemplate her own views of the world and rejects Monroes belief that the objects on earth are gifts from another world in Fraziers novel Cold Mountain She finds comfort in the predictable elements of life such as natures cycles after she sees how useless intangible items are to her such as reading and learning languages Thus she denies the importance of invisible items However Inman disgusted by the images of war burned into his mind seeks refuge in the spir