Authors note: this is a five paragraph easy on how the character Adam changes emotionally and physically through out the story.
When he joins the war he is in great condition he got and a rating on his enlist physical. Adam is a taller kid. He is a good sized kid has muscle from working on his grand fathers farm. He has brown hair and typical American kid.
Then when he actual joins the war there is not much good food. A lot of crackers and chesses for breakfast some more cold food for lunch and dinner. Except for when they get a break from the war and great letters and coffee and hot meals. He gets skinnier. When he was on Okinawa he got skinnier because they didn’t eat a lot .then he got wounded and had to use crouches and a cane. His leg will never look the same.
Emotionally he in the beginning he is headstrong and confident. Then he joins the war and becomes paranoid and nerves when he gets home from the war he is still paranoid. He even looks for shelter when he first enters a new room. And if he here’s a loud noise he ducks for cover.
In the beginning of the story he wants to join the war. His family has been in war for the last three generation he is fun loving and innocent. The part he wants to do is be a hero like his father was who died in Pearl Harbor in the first book.
He goes all the way around the country just to get signed up. He enlists with his grand fathers permission his mother would not let him. He was so determined he had to beg his grandfather to sign the papers needed for him to join.