Jimmy Cross went to war only because his friends did, and that led him to danger. He had to lead a group of soldiers when he did not feel qualified to. Tim uses the characters to show the fear of shame as motivation for going to
The Heroic Coward Throughout the story The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane, the actions and attitude of the protagonist, Private Henry Fleming constantly change. In the beginning of the book Henry would be considered a hero for enlisting in the army. In the middle and the end of the book Henry changes from a hero to a coward. He continuously ran away during the battles and he also fakes an injury in the attempt to receive a Red Badge of Courage. First Henry decides to enlist into the army which takes place in the first chapter of the book.
On June 14, 1864 the three of them made their way to Pine Mountain. After telling their troops to fall back the union sharpshooter’s spotted them and shot off Mini balls. As the generals took off, Polk seemed to drag behind for an unknown reason, some say he was praying. During this time two more shots were fired, one striking polk and practically “splitting him in half.” The generals rushed to get him help, but it was to late, Polk was dead
On page 163 Downs leads his platoon down a trail and into an ambush. Downs paid for the mistake himself when he got wounded but when he lost one of his men in the ambush he had thoughts of leaving Vietnam. I felt that Downs had reached an important point on page 20 when he fought a North Vietnamese soldier in close
Another difference is that one story is about conflict between soldiers, while the other one is about cooperation between friends. In “The sniper” two soldiers battled against each other from opposite roofs and one ended up being killed. In “Cranes”, Two childhood friends meet during the brink of war and one has to take the other one to his death, but in the end, he decides not to and lets him go. People die in “The Sniper”, while no one actually dies in “Cranes”. “The Sniper” is set in battle, and “Cranes” is set in the countryside where there is no battle at all.
Haie is not doing well. Paul is pretty nervous about being back from his leave. He feels something bad is going to happen. Coming so close to death after a bomb landing right next him he finds a soldier suffering in pain. He calmed the soldier to fight for his life but Paul know he won’t last very long.
This incredible war story shows us that, even though they display great bravery and valour in battle, the only thing young men who fight in wars accomplish is an early death. The novel talks about many soldiers dying. So many of these soldiers are dead, that in the trenches they can smell the stench of rotting flesh, as the dead men often do not get buried. Those young men lying out in No Man’s Land, unburied, all went to war for the same reason, to prove that they were brave, not cowardly, and to fight for their country. All they end up doing though is becoming another casualty, another statistic, dying in a war that had no real reason.
Boys are woken up, sleepily with eyes half-closed at 3 am, ordered to run to Gettysburg, a place that buried 50,000 men who died in America Civil War, and that is where they learn a profound lesson from Coach Boone and reflect on themselves. Since then, things go well step by step. Titans try to understand each other and consider themselves as a team, an unbreakable team. Lastik and Sunshine, different from those white boys born in Alexandria Virginia, are shocked by the way how whites and blacks get on with each other here, being on the verge of breaking out a fight whenever and wherever possible, because they come from places where is no racial discrimination, with the idea that the feud of whites and blacks can be eased. Hence, they do not follow the flow of being unfriendly to blacks like the
This in turn causes more friction between the two instead of creating the connection that Cory hopes for. Cory begins to lose respect for his father when he finds out that Troy went to the coach and told him that Cory could no longer play football. Cory believes that the reason his father keeps saying no to football is because Troy is jealous of Cory when he tells Troy, “Just cause you didn’t have a chance! You just scared I’m gonna be better than you, that’s all” (442). With each argument Cory has with Troy, he
Although they know there is a sniper, they still fear him because they cannot discern when he will shoot them. “Sooner or later this German sniper, who keeps us cowering in cold fear, will be caught in an advance by our troops.” In the same chapter, the sniper kills the character Brown. Brown’s death has made the narrator more fearful of the unknown because he now knows what the sniper’s ability. This shows us why the narrator would fear the unknown in the novel. What’s more, the inhumanity is another big deal.