The story is designated as entertainment and attracts the reader's attention. Types of stories are fictitious, genuine, unified, or both. However, they may include folk tales, mysterious stories, science fiction, romance, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical stories, folk songs, pieces of life, personal experiences ( "Story", 2008). Therefore, the story text has five things in common. These are settings, characters, plots, themes and vocabulary ("Story and information text", 2008).
Ray Bradbury's Shiloh drummer boy speaks to a young drummer boy named Joby the night before Shiloh's battle during the Civil War. It describes his tension and anxiety about the fight in the 14 - year - old war, and the general explains how he helped overcome his fears. One of the themes of short stories is that we, people, or military are more similar and often more different. An example of a topic in the story is that Lei Brad Berry never gives a hero in this aspect of civil war, Jobby, people are different than usual. The author talks about all their tensions with hopes and full of soldiers full of hope and emotion, but no one simply mentioned about even North or South. It made it by the author deliberately because it made it possible for us, the reader to clearly see the emotions on both sides of the war without letting us personally consider the motive of both sides.
Ray Bradbury is the author of many books including Shiloh's Drummer Boy, The Veldt, there will be weak rain. He likes to write stories about the future and stories of the past. This great writer gained inspiration as he read the ob report about the actor's grandfather who was drummer at the Battle of Hiro. The author was born in 1920 and died in 2012. (Page 191)
One of the legends of Hiro is a young drummer boy who died on the battlefield. As a young man leaving his hometown looking for adventure, the drummer's boy represented many immature soldiers who fought in the war. Claiming that many men later are drummer's boys - they are not dead in battle - John Kreml, "Chikamoga drummer boy" is considered to have the strongest title. Writers and poets predict the bravery of young boys of Shiloh's drummer and extend the heroicism of all soldiers. Examples of drummer boy's legends include Samuel J. Mask Loft's 1870 play "Hilo's drummer boy", Herman Melville's poet "Hiro", Richard's "Western people", H. Joy McDaniel's "I Our boys died in Hilo, "" General Albert Sydney Johnston "and Wilson Wilson 's old sergeant.