The Battle of Courage “The Red Badge of Courage”, by Stephen Crane, is about a young boy that is excited to be able to join the army and serve his country. Being young and inexperienced, Henry Fleming doesn’t realize that his biggest battle isn’t going to be with other men, but in fact within himself. The book by Stephen Crane is written about some of the battles during the Civil War but is focused on the main character Henry and his battle of courage. Henry was excited to join the army, but his mother had discouraged him to join. When he signed his name and told his mother that he was leaving to fight the war, he did not get the response he was looking for.
“The Red Badge of Courage” is about teenager, Henry Fleming. The plot of this book is that Henry, who is very scared and intimidated, is fighting in the war and comes out being the hero; you can say he is an underdog. A Red Badge of Courage is a wound received when one is injured in combat. Henry gives everything he can to fight and win, but there is one problem, he does not have a Red Badge of Courage like everyone else. In the end of the book Henry finally gets his Red Badge of Courage, but earns his in a sort of dishonest way.
In the beginning chapters of the book, he is eager and looking forward to war. By the end of the book, wishes he had never been involved in the war. A dramatic change took place inside this man between his enlistment and discharge. I read this change to be an extreme form of growing up. Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die.
What Others See The Red Badge of Courage is a novel that goes in to the mind and life of a teenage boy, and scrutinizes his actions during the Civil War. The teenage boy, Henry Fleming, is clouded by his fantasies of becoming a war hero and receiving the glory. Henry enters the Civil War as boy, but through a series of battles and events his character evolves and matures. His façade quickly fades away in his journey through war and interactions with others. Out of the many transformations Henry goes through, he changes the most from altering his childish ways to become more of an adult.
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As The Red Badge of Courage begins, members of a newly recruited regiment are arguing over a rumor stating that they are finally going to move out on the next day and attack the enemy. A young soldier, named Henry Fleming, doesn’t participate in the debate and instead thinks about what will happen to him when they get to battle. He wonders if he will run or stand and fight bravely. He enlisted because he wanted to be a hero. His mother, however, wasn’t interested in this idea at all, and discouraged him from enlisting.
He is in the war because he cannot pay for college and he needs to provide for his family. His Mother and Brother back home are relying on him. He is supposed to have a medical profile and not see battle because of his bad knee but it is lost in the transition so he is put in with alpha company under the leadership of Captain Stewart and Lieutenant Carroll. He ends up being a much stronger individual in the end of the novel. Richie is naïve and scared when first arriving in Vietnam and as the novel progresses he becomes more confident but remains scared.
Although, Dana’s fear is not about death, she fears never being able to establish a life somewhere to create a family because military men are always traveling or moving from city to city. Charles knows about all these sacrifices, and without a doubt he knows that Dana is this kind of strong woman as he wrote in the journal to their son Jordan, “It takes a special kind of woman to be married to a soldier. (…) You really have to be a self-motivated and strong-willed person. You spend a lot of time alone because he’s gone” (210). Charles’ decision is reasonable, and unfortunately he could not go through to his plans of completing the tour of duty and coming back home for
He graduated from college had a summer job and in comes a letter saying he was now drafted into the war. Not knowing what to do he basically tries to hide his draft letter and when his dad asks him what’s his plans for the summer he says “Nothing, wait”. He starts to think about running for Canada and then one day at work while doing his usual job of removing blood clots from the neck of dead pigs something inside him broke. He walks away from the plant, goes home and packs, writes a letter to his parents, and starts to drive north. At this point in the story O’Brien to the point of view of the people who read it seems like a coward for running away.
I was unable to describe to Mary that her father will no longer into the room and pick her up or even tell her stories at bedtime. I also urged her brother, Edward Jr. to not try to mention it to her, but support and take care of her as best as he can. Mary was growing up and meanwhile this whole time I was telling her stories of her father and everything that happened between him and me inclusive the part with Bertha and how she burned the house down. Edward Jr. looks a younger version of his father, finally happy and married to a wonderful wife who is expecting her first son within this year. Mary enjoys going out with her friends to parties and even brings my cousin’s daughters with her.