Context

This short story is product of the authors imagination, the story took place around 1862 during the civil war when the U.S.A armies from north (Union) that was against the south (Confederacy), who supported the slavery, as they were facing and defendig their political views in a series of battles that ocurred in many locations around U.S. Between this locations was Shiloh ,where the author develop the story about a short age drummer boy called Joby who is scared about his future after the battle, because he is a drummer boy, so he just has his drum and the drummsticks to fight. The drummer boys mostly are kids who doesn´t have families, parents and they are very poor. There is no age limit, so kids of 8 years could be in the middle of the war, risking their lifes. This is the situation of joby, the main character of Bradbury´s story.