Through a nurse's perspectiveDenise Xylia LaguaStory 4710-05Dr. FrançoisApril 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, three concise “sketches” describe his experience. The first sketch was about her decision to become a nurse, avoiding her family's other suggestions, such as writing a book, teaching, and getting married. The second skit was about her work as a nurse and how she cared for and treated wounded American soldiers in the hospital. Her final sketch describes the time she contracted a serious illness from nursing and was forced and taken home by her father. In Chapter Four, One Night, John, who was a young blacksmith, a soldier, and one of Periwinkle's dying patients, affected her the most during her experience as a nurse. Alcott's diction and imagery of John gave his audience a better understanding of the Civil War....