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    A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning"
    A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning"
    A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning"
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    A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning"

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    A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535818629
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      A Study Guide for Howard Fast's "April Morning" - Gale

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      April Morning

      Howard Fast

      1961

      Introduction

      Howard Fast's young-adult novel April Morning is more than a story of war. It is the story of a fifteen-year-old boy finding himself and becoming an adult in the middle of a revolution. When the story begins, Adam Cooper is a typical teen, living in eighteenth-century rural Massachusetts. As he does his morning chores, he grumbles about his parents not taking him seriously and treating him as if he were still a child, but everything in Adam's life is about to change. In just a little over twenty four hours, he will be looked upon as a man—a successful soldier who is consider ed mature enough to marry and to become the new head of his family's household.

      Fast is well known for taking stories from history books and turning them into gripping tales as seen through the eyes of common folk. Rather than narrating this novel, for example, through the experience of the high-ranking officers whose names appear frequently in the historical accounts, Fast creates a fictional character who witnesses all the same events but from a different and more personal point of view. In this novel, readers feel both the pride and the fear of the teenage protagonist who wants to be respected as an adult. Then, when he is suddenly given the chance, he questions why he wanted to grow up so fast.

      April Morning was published in 1961, a transitional period for young-adult novels, which were finally coming into their own. Authors of stories written for teens were developing more serious subjects and were writing in a more literary form than had been used for young-adult books in previous decades. Fast's April Morning was considered one of the first to take on these new elements. J. Donald Adams, writing a review for the New York Times, predicted back in the 1960s that this novel would some day reach the standing of an American classic.

      Author Biography

      Fast was born in New York City on November 11, 1914. His father held various positions as a manual laborer. Because his father earned only a meager wage, when Fast was twelve, he sold newspapers to provide more income for the family. After graduating from high school, Fast left home and traveled across the country by hopping free rides on railroad cars, mingling with train hobos along the way. It was during this time that Fast wrote his first novel, a historical romance called Two Valleys (1933), which enjoyed moderate success. His second book, Conceived in Liberty, A Novel of Valley Forge (1939), brought him more fame as well as more money. It was with his second novel that Fast developed an interest in the American Revolution, a theme he would continue to pursue in his 1961 novel April

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