Term Papers on The Charleston Charm

Term Paper Title	The Charleston Charm
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The Charleston Charm

Hour 1

            Gentlemen, when asked about who was a big influence on your road to manhood, who comes to mind?  Notice the word “who”.  When talking about the ascension to manhood, most people think of a person or a certain event that made them a man.  For Will McLean, the influence to his manhood was the city of Charleston.

Charleston influences Will’s ascension to manhood because of the city’s affect on his personal mood, how he grows to love the city after each summer, and what he learns from Abigail St. Croix.

            The city of Charleston can lure you in like bait on a hook.  Commerce St. Croix talks often about how the city owns him, how he can’t leave even though sometimes he wishes he could.  For Will McLean, the city shapes him and becomes part of his life so much that as he returns after summer break, he finds his mood reflecting on the harsh weather of a Charleston September.  “The drought seemed an appropriate symbol for how I felt after the suicide of Poteete.  Or perhaps I only noticed weather then, when my spirit was dry and brittle” (209).  Will feels as the weather does, “in terrible need of storm and change and deliverance.”  After the suicide of one cadet the previous year, Will finds himself unable to be the sarcastic smart aleck he normally is.  Spending time alone thinking is one of his new past times – he just wishes for closure.  Charleston’s climate seemingly correlates with how Will is feeling, one of the city’s ways of reeling them in for good.

Cadets oftentimes find themselves cursing the Institute and the city of Charleston during their plebe year.  The city houses the Institute, home of the horrid place putting them through all the torture that they endure.  Some...

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