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“ The dead soilder has a spare shirt and a roll of bandages ,all of which i tie tight around pa’s chest, and the bleeding seems to slow down some “pg119 AHa because once her pa got cut she turned into survival mode a was trying to save her family like she was being the reader .

“ just then a soldier runs towards us, and he is as suprised to see us as we are him. I cant tell if hes confederate or federal, and before either he or i can aim and shoot comes charging at Pa with his bayonet . He takes one clean swipe at him and I hear Pa scream “ Pg 17 Memory moment because I read A little more and she was still shocked about it after they got home to safety .

"I cant hear anything. I cup my earlobes with my hands all i catch is set him loose and bloodiness" Buck / the slave of Pa, he gets captured from his owners and is punished by drowning him in the water the owners come up and start fighting the captives and fight to the point where guns get drawn at the owners they flee with no injury and walk to canada to let Buck have a better life .

"Mr Cook we come for a pair of spectacles and some matches Pa says you getting too old to shoot straight,Jack Mr cook sets a pair of spectacles on the courner Buck come try these out Pa says Mr Cook picks up the spectales and puts them in a drawer . Here your matches He brings out a box of matches were all out of specs " Its surprising how races they were to the colored back in the day .

" How did Henry die, Pa? Pa shakes his head and turns away . I cant see any part of his face. with his back turned he looks like a vulture .You know our situation better than I do " Pa is scared to tell the family because of the way they would act and feel .

Henry ? Ma says Yeah Pa I said looking past him and up the road wheres Henry? Pa shakes his head and he and Ma, they hug each other . Bit gurgles and Buck rocks her. It makes me feel like nothing, getting the news that Henry is dead .

The main character Shanks is a little girl who is lived in the time of the civil war her dad and mom own slaves and is fighting beside his son in the war to keep his slaves ,he is gone a while and everyone is worried sick on if they will come home until his dad is the only one who has come back so far with only one arm and 2 legs on his body .