I decided now that I am in about a hundred pages into my story; that I could start identify a plot. I chose to use the idea, Try to identify a very important scene in your book. Explain why it is so important.I chose to use the scene where Ada is explaining her father before he died, and the type of person he was. This is important to me because, with describing the kind of person he was, you can see how his influences have rubbed off on Ada. He also was her father for one thing, but he was a very selfless and opinionated person, and reading the story the reader can tell that the older Ada gets, the more like her father she is.
“His Charleston doctor, putting all his faith in the powers of cool fresh air and exercise, had recommended a well-known highland resort with a fine dining room and therapeutic mineral hot springs. However, Monroe did not relish the idea of a restful quiet place full of the well-to-do and their many afflictions. He instead found a mountain church of his denomination lacking a preacher, reasoning that useful work would be more therapeutic than reeking sulfur water.” Pg. 109.
This quote shows that he is more of an outdoor type, and that he does not feel that being all fancy makes things better. This is why this scene is so significant because its showing what type of guy Monroe, Ada’s father, was before he died.When Ada finally decides to go back to the house where her father, and herself lived before he died.
“Ada sat on long enough to watch the day rise. The first grey light began gathering faintly, and then as the light built the mountains began to form themselves, retaining the dark of night in their bulk. The fog that clung to the peaks lifted and lost the shapes of the mountains and dissipated in the warmth of the morning. In the pasture the forms of trees remained drawn in dew on the grass beneath them. When she stood to walk down to the house, the smell of night still lingered under the two chestnut trees.” pg. 108
This quote to me shows how Ada has started to share the same perspective that her father did. Most people wouldn’t want to live out there being surrounded by the mountains, and the cold, but being her father’s daughter, she definitely feels that because there is so many obstacles she can get through them.
Frazier, Charles. Cold Moutain. Canada: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997
