A Study Guide for Irene Hunt's "Across Five Aprils"
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Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
1964
Introduction
Across Five Aprils was first released in the United States in 1964, during the country's five-year-long centennial to commemorate the Civil War. This hundredth anniversary generated numerous books dealing with the conflict between the states, and Irene Hunt's first book garnered critical acclaim from the outset. The novel received a favorable review in the New York Times Book Review, earned a number of awards including the Charles W. Follet Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and it became a Newbery Honor Book.
The novel tells the story of Jethro Creighton, a nine-year-old boy from a southern Illinois farm family who comes of age during the Civil War. The five Aprils referred to in the title are the five years during which the Civil War raged, beginning with the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and ending with Confederate General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Hunt explores the effect the war had on those family members that remained at home, shows the tensions that existed in the border states during the war, and examines how differing opinions about the war affected relationships between family members and their neighbors.
Hunt based the book on the stories her grandfather told her about growing up in southern Illinois during the Civil War. Like the protagonist Jethro, Hunt's grandfather was nine years old when the Civil War began. To tell the story of the Creighton family, Hunt relied on family letters, records, and diaries as well as her own extensive research into the period. In her Author's Note, Hunt writes, As to the story of the Creightons, there is hardly a page in this book on which a situation has not been suggested by family letters and records and by the stories told by my grandfather.
She notes that her grandfather gave his listeners a wealth of detail that enabled us to share with him the anxiety and sorrow of the times as well as the moments of happiness in a close-knit family.
In Books and the Learning Process,
her Newbery Medal acceptance speech for her second novel, Up a Road Slowly, Hunt noted that