Through a nurse's perspectiveDenise Xylia LaguaStory 4710-05Dr. FrancoisApril 26, 2014In Civil War Hospital Sketches, Louisa May Alcott presented her six-week experience as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. She gave herself a pseudonym: Nurse Tribulation Periwinkle. Throughout the story there were three concise “sketches” that represented his experience. The first sketch was about her decision to become a nurse, evading other suggestions from her family such as writing a book, teaching and getting married. The second sketch was about her work as a nurse and how she cared for and treated wounded American soldiers in the hospital. Her last sketch described when she contracted a serious illness from breastfeeding and was forced and brought home to her father. In chapter four, A Night, John, who was a young blacksmith, a soldier, and one of Periwinkle's dying patients, affected her most during her experience as a nurse. Alcott's diction and imagery about John served to inform his audience's understanding of the Civil War....