Shades of Gray

Shades of hoary Characters volition Page go forth is a twelve year grey-headed boy who has brown hair and eyes. He is pretty clever and tries to puzzle others. He is very loyal and compassionate. He is very sad and angry. He had lost his whole family due to the Civil War. He is the last h gray out member of his immediate family as a result he comes to lie with with his aunt and uncle. gazillion Jones Meg is a ten year old girl and she is Wills cousin. Meg is very curious and she is ceaselessly asking questions. Meg does a parcel out of chores to help her parents care for their home.Meg has not been to school because of the war so she contribute not read. Uncle Jed Jones Uncle Jed is a tall strong man with a broad chest and sinewy arms. He has dark hair with a full dark beard. He is a wise man who believes in himself and doesnt worry active what others think. He gets Will to think for himself and learnes him many lessons. He chose to not tug in the war with the pard ner soldiers. He did not feel that at that place was a reason for the war. Many people think he is a coward because of this. SummaryTwelve year old Will Page is a grieving and angry boy when Doctor Martin takes him to his relatives in the Piedmont region of Virginia. Wills family resilientd in Winchester, Virginia and had been wiped out in the Civil War. His father fought bravely in the Confederate Army, his sisters died of a disease that Will is convinced was carried by the Yankees and his develop died in short afterward. Will is grieving for the lose of his whole family. He is angry with the legal jointure Army for causing the war that took everything from him. Wills Mom had asked that Will be sent to live with her sister.Uncle Jed ref employ to take inclines in the war and Wills family considered him a traitor and a coward. He does not to live with someone he does not respect. But he must follow his mothers wishes. When he first sees his aunt he is reminded of his mother. Au nt Ella resembles his mother. Then he meets Meg his younger cousin and she looks uniform his younger sister. He thinks it whitethorn be okay here and then he meets hi uncle the coward who wouldnt fight for Virginia. How is he ever going to be able to live in this mans home? Will lived on a plantation in the metropolis of Winchester.He lived in a well-off home. Wills family had slaves and the slaves did all the real work on the plantation. Will is not used to manual labor and now, living with his aunt , uncle and cousin he bespeakfully to work hard everyday. His pride will not let him accommodate to weariness or dismay in how hard the work is on the farm. His uncle can sense the feelings Will has towards him. Uncle Jed has Will work along side of him and he gives him responsibility. Working along side his uncle, Will comes to a begrudging wonderment of his skill and wisdom. Will excessively learns to trust his own instincts.Meg can be Wills salvation from his uncle. She loves to talk and ask a lot of questions. He admires what a hard worker she is. Meg also doesnt act like most girls Will has known. He begins to like heading and talking with Meg. Will finds out that Meg can not read. There has not been a school since the war started. Will begins to teach Meg to read. Throughout the book Uncle Jed teaches Will little lessons on how to be an honorable man. Will begins to understand that the price his uncle and his family paid for their beliefs was almost as great as the one Wills family paid.Will was so wrapped up in what he lose that he didnt see what his uncle lost. Will has the opportunity to move back home to his city. At first he really wants to go but then he realizes he is home. His mother was right when she sent him there to live. Setting This story is set at the end of the Civil War. Around the year 1867 in the Virginia Piedmont. Will moves from the city of Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley to a farm in the Virginia Piedmont. Will had lived a l ife of leisure with slaves that cared for the home and grounds and did all the cooking.When he moves in with his aunt and uncle he needs to learn how to work. The family has a lot of chores that need to be done to take care of the farm. They also provoke traps for familial rabbit and gardens to grow vegetables. Will look fores so they can have fish for dinner. The family does not have a horse so they must walk everywhere they go. They do not wear shoes because it is summer time. They have a pasture and a buckwheat field. But a lot of the area is timbers. They have a springhouse that keeps things cool. Will needs to chop wood for the fire so they can cook dinner.