Extended Reading
  • Earline 2022-03-25 09:01:07

    Love is separated by mountains and seas, mountains and seas are not flat

    War is so out of reach for the young people of this age. Even what I learned from books feels like a story my parents told when I was a child.

    "Cold Mountain" begins with a profound description of the war, and Ada's letter is Inman's only hope in this cruel and death-shrouded darkness. It...

  • Jamir 2022-04-21 09:01:49

    war and love

    What will war bring to love? This seems to be an unsolved proposition. Pushing it aside, what will all the big times that individuals cannot control bring to love? "Cold Mountain" gave us an answer, is it warm? I have no idea. Find a scene closer to us. The civil war closest to us also caused the...

Cold Mountain quotes

  • Ruby: [to Ada] Am I hard to hear? 'Cause you keep repeatin' everything.

  • [Ruby has just walked in on Inman and Ada talking by the campfire]

    Ruby: Number one - shut this door, it's freezing. Number two - shut that door, it's freezing. I'm laying on my back, with my fingers poked in my ears trying to shut out who's got a bag of diamonds and who's carrying a tray. If you want to get three feet up a bull's ass, listen to what sweethearts whisper to each other. Now, if you're going to wimble wimble all night, I'm going to sleep in with him.

    [she stomps into her father's hut]