wilderness

For this part of my book adam is sitting on the street after he gets off the boat. He looks around and he sees his first dead person besides his father. This person is hung on the lamp post. His toes and fingers are cut off and he is just hanging on the lamp post and he is a negro. He is just in shock when he sees it. Then all of a sudden he is caught in a mob and forced into a house. He is shoved downstairs and then he sees some black people down there and then they flood the house and a black person saves him.

I am like in shock over this. I mean all of this violence during the civil war. I mean i knew that there was violence but not that much violence where they cut off peoples toes and fingers. Also i didn't know that people ran into the blacks houses and killed every single one of them. If i was adam i would have freaked out in that basement. I would have been just scared out of my mind and probably would have peed myself.

I am also scared for adam. I mean if i was there i would be scared out of my mind. Coming over from germany to fight and not knowing anybody over here and then seeing people get killed. He does seem scared at first but then he starts thinking and isn't very scared anymore. I still would be and i would want to go home as soon as possible. Seeing this and then having to go out and fight i wouldn't do it.

If you were adam what would you have done in the basement when it was getting flooded and why?