Week 3 summarizer

This bunch of chapters is focused mainly on the horror and truth of war. In this chapter Tom departs from his family’s farm after staying with them for a few days with FitzGibbon to find his father as he had promised his little brother, they travel alongside captain Ducharme and his native warriors. When they reach the first possible military hospital Tom’s father might be in where FitzGibbon warns him that the worst place in a war is a hospital. they search the tent where Tom is met with many horrors foreign to him, and an old neighbour who has had his arm amputated, when they are about to give up they decide to search the nearby barn when out of nowhere Tom’s father appears. After that when FitzGibbon is reporting in with his superiors Tom spends some time with his father during which his father pushes himself too hard and he collapses and Tom realises how his father’s life has changed. later when Tom and FitzGibbon are traveling together they are ambushed by 3 american soldiers during the chaos FitzGibbon is shot but he survives unhurt and Tom fights of the americans. The chapter ends with FitzGibbon and Tom riding back to camp.