The Red Badge Of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage: an Episode of American Civil War, by Stephen Crane
Henry was a teenage boy around the age of sixteen years old. He lived in New York City in the year 1893. The Civil War had started and Henry made his mind up that he wanted to fight in the northern army. Henry's mother tried very hard to persuade him not to enlist into the army. She told him old veteran's tales to try and scare him into not joining. Henry did not believe the old tales and his mother told him that she disapproved of him going but it was his decision. She told him that he didn't have to be a hero because she didn't want that to be the last time they saw each other.
When Henry joins the army, he is placed in the 304th regiment. Before long Henry is moved to where the action is going on and the he starts to second guess his decision about enlisting into the army. He thinks that they are being lead into death and he wants to share his thoughts but he does not because he is afraid that......
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