Chhh!!! Boom!!! Chh!! Boom!! The story “The Drummer boy of Shiloh” written by Ray Bradbury was a young boy who was in the middle of a war. I know, I know your’e probably thinking what business do a boy have doing on this battlefield. Well, Joby--the main character of the story--was the drummer boy ; he sets the tone for the men to march into battle. The battle that he was in was the Battle of Shiloh--it was a battle t the western Theater of the American Civil War on April 6-7, 1862. The author captures your mind and take you all the way back to this great historical battle. This specific battle was alsoo known as the battle of Pittsburg Landing. This one historical fiction was my favorite out of all the one’s I have read, because not only is this a great story , it has many symbolic things in it. …show more content…
The first symbol I pulled out of the story was brass buttons. Those brass buttons represented the general , because the general’s attire was different from the soldiers. How do I know this because in the story it says, No not eyes, but brass buttons that watched the boy (Page 169). This relates to my life, because my brother is in the United States Army and he just recently graduated from basic training , and when we saw the Lieutenant uniform it had many ribbons and pins on it, but when I you look at the men in training they only had a U.S Amry