The fact he kept his faith throughout was very impressive to me, but the catch all for me was how he handled the fame. No matter how much people bugged him when he returned he stayed the same humble Alvin York that came from Pall Mall, Tennessee as he ever was. The only way anyone talked him into doing anything is by fortune of the tribulations that Alvin felt. When Alvin moved out into the world outside of Pall Mall, he realized how inadequate his education was. He was quite inferior when it came to intellectual measures and the common place things of the world. Essentially, what happened is they took the goldfish out of the bowl and threw him into the ocean. It was quite the culture shock for Alvin to take in, but he held strong and worked through it. However, this lead to what I appreciate about him. As I said when he made it back he became stricter in his religion and pacifism and did not want to be any part of glorifying war by any means. The final strand was when they wanted to do a movie on him, and he did not want to because of the war involved. He finally agreed as long as the money went to a nondenominational church for youth. His two biggest goals when he came back were religion and education, which were the two things that helped and hurt him the most in his own life. .
The book was based on all fact and was kept pretty close to the truth from the information I had at my disposable. David Lee's professional background really did nt have much affect on the book from what I could see. That is the one thing that is great about Alvin; there were so many issues that revolved around him. Political, economic, social, and cultural were all involved in Alvin's life. Also, all of these played a major influential part in the path his life took. His poverty helped promote the idea of him being downtrodden to all of the other categories. He was at the bottom of the barrel in all of those in most people's mind, but he made the changes in his life and drastically improved all of those ideas.