Personally I genuinely enjoyed the novel, “Cold Sassy Tree” by Olive Ann Burns, for it explained the story of a very harsh, but also very real situation, while adding in bits of humor in order to offset the “heavy” atmosphere in Cold Sassy. This novel is so favorable for Burns does a fantastic job of capturing the minds of the adolescent, and providing an alternative perspective to difficult situations that occur in Cold Sassy to show how maturity and age does not always determine one’s wisdom. Time and time again we see Will have a much more reasonable opinion on death as well as the marriage, while the adults blow everything out of proportion and are quick to turn on one another. Perhaps the most favorable point in the novel is when we start to see  a change within Mr. Blakeslee, from an adult state of mind, to a teenage state of mind. At the beginning of the novel Mr. Blakeslee heart was growing old due to lack of physicality with Miss Mattie Lou,  however with the new love he found in Miss Love, his old heart transformed to the heart of a young teenage boy, and Mr. Blakeslee began to do what pleased him by finally proclaiming his love for her. Keeping in mind all this is occurring around a time of major advances in technology, such as cars, only adds to the plot for it shows how with work the world is constantly changing for the better, just how with work their marriage eventually revived both of them of their broken past. After all the events in the novel I felt as if Burns was trying to portray the message that, yes, life is hard and the words of others can be hurtful, but with a clear mind and love, all things are ultimately possible.