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Thematic Analysis of Humanity as Seen in Cold Mountain 　　[a]Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China. 　　*Corresponding author. 　　Received 26 April 2013; accepted 13 August 2013 　　Abstract 　　The epic novel Cold Mountain sets its course through the troubled Civil War era. Many characters come through the unrest adventure and tell tales of hardships and despair, some of which are war stories. Frazier suggests that the war damaged Southerners both personally and politically. What Cold Mountain concerns is that the evolution of human relationships in tandem with the seasonal changes and variations of the natural world. This paper talks briefly about such universal literary subjects as theme, characters, human relationships and especially the educational meanings uncovered in novel. 　　Key words: Cold Mountain; Journey; Humanity; Human relationships 　　CHI Ren, HAO Yu (2013). Thematic Analysis of Humanity as Seen in Cold Mountain. Higher Education of Social Science, 5(2), -0. Available from: URL: /index.php/hess/article/view/j.hess.1927024020130502.C168 　　DOI: /10.3968/j.hess.1927024020130502.C168 　　INTRODUCTION 　　Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier’s debut novel, won critical acclaim and the National Book Award for fiction when it was published in 1997. As an author of travel books and short stories, Frazier had ample experience in writing about landscapes and using a condensed prose style. Frazier applied these literary skills in crafting Cold Mountain’s episodic structure and detailed descriptive passages. 　　1. THE SETTING OF THE NOVEL COLD MOUNTAIN 　　The novel sets its story around one fictional village called “Cold Mountain” in the southern Appalachian. This village is the area around the present day Waynesville, North Carolina, which sits in the shadow of the 5000 feet Cold Mountain. The people in the story run their farms in the old nineteenth century way, by hand and with animal power. The time is the mid-1860s, one of the most tra