The Killer Angels APUSH Book Report

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for a short story he wrote later in his life, Come to My Party. He did well after graduating from high school.

Shaara's work experiences resembled those of Ernest Hemingway, one of his favorite authors. He served in the army as a paratrooper, was a merchant seaman, a police officer, and also taught literature next to being a writer. In the entirety of his life, he wrote 75 short stories that were published in a variety of magazines, some of them being Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook. His short stories covered a variety of genres, science fiction being the predominant genre. His second novel, being The Killer Angels, is the one that brought him recognition. The causes behind the book are letters and a vacation. The letters were from an his great-grandfather who fought and was injured at Gettysburg. He took a trip to Gettysburg seeking to learn more about his great-grandfather's experience. His health worsened later in life.

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so is considered to be a third person omniscient viewpoint. The perspective changes with every chapter, going from person to person, Union to Confederate. It is considered by many to be the best Civil War novel ever written, it was a national bestseller, won a Pulitzer prize, and was the basis for the popular film Gettysburg despite the trouble it went through in the beginning.

The Inspiration behind The Killer Angels were letters written by Shaara's great-grandfather during the Civil War and a vacation he and his family took to Gettysburg. His great-grandfather was a member of the 4th Georgia infantry and was wounded at Gettysburg. He and his family visited Gettysburg twice: one in ...

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