Henry The Alligator Snapping Turtle Short Story

Henry’s confidence does not last for a long time. The realities of the battle become a reality and cause his fear and doubt to reappear. Henry goes from being happy because he was able to fight the enemy in the first battle to being anxious at the beginning of a second

Henry's selfishness causes conflict in this scene of the novel. After seeing how the enemy fights like "machines of steel", Henry flees the battle, because he believes his life is more important than the others'. His selfishness is also persistent, due to his lack of shame in his actions as said by the narrator, "He, too, threw down his gun and fled. There was no shame in his face. He ran like a rabbit." His choice to run is a selfish decision, as he decides to save his own life as opposed to fighting for the greater cause. This trait is also shown as he fears what the other soldiers will think of him for fleeing. Instead of worrying about the battle he abandoned, he is worried that the other soldiers will think he is a coward for

Henry to deliver because he was speaking to a group of people who were opposed

Initially, Henry fears that he will run like a coward when faced with his first battle. He’s been in the army for a while now but hasn’t seen any action yet. Talking with the other men, he tries to get them to admit that they are scared as well. No one wants to say as much; they all seem perfect examples of fearless men, which leaves Henry feeling even worse about his own apprehension. Shortly before his first battle, he sees his first dead body, a gruesome corpse.

Henry states that "Well, we 've helt 'em back. We 've helt 'em back; derned if we haven't." The men said it blissfully, leering at each other with dirty smiles” (Crane 36). This quote contains a repetitive refrain in order to express the shock and the self-satisfaction, until Henry lets his guard down, under the impression that they wouldn’t attack again. There is a sense of courage even though he was terrified. He hung in there, and he is feeling proud with his “dirty smile”, until he sees other run which almost plants a seed in his subconscious mind and he begins to panic again. He ”yelled then with fright and swung about. For a moment, in the great clamor, he was like a proverbial chicken. He lost his direction of safety. Destruction threatened him from all points” (Crane 39). This quote expresses how Henry went from self-satisfaction to being compared to a chicken, frightened and out of control. He panicked when his psyche was compromised. His sense of self and confidence was broken down to zero.

As Henry is trying to find ways to justify running from the battle, he happens to overhear a few men talking about the very same battle. His side had won, and Henry is faced with the harsh truth, Henry ran out of fear. Not because he though that the soldiers fighting alongside him would lose, but because he was afraid only for his own life. As he is thinking about all of this, Henry finally comes across other soldiers. As he inspects them more closely however, he notices that they are all badly wounded. Still trying to escape the battle, he joins

Moving closer to the battle, Henry, the rookie private with a lack of self-confidence and courage, starts thinking if he should run away from a battle or fight in the battle. With a lack of war experience, he feels insecure going to battle and does not know what to do. He starts to ask his fellow soldiers on their thoughts and opinions about running away from a battle as he felt cowardliness of doing so. He also asked one

Henry is trying to communicate to his audience that the British will betray them in terms that his audience will relate to or understand, so he uses a situation that happens in a well-known piece of

The quote occurs after Henry fled from battle. It shows that he believes running away was the right thing to do even if he left his friends to fight. Henry believes that saving himself was more important than standing and fighting with his regiment.

But in the second battle Henry flees from his comrades while they held the line as the rebels tried to push them out. The regiment ended up being the victors of the second battle too. But Henry was worried about what the other soldiers would say to him since he ran away from the battle. I believe Henry was always afraid of battle even before it started and when the enemy came sprinting towards him he was shocked and started to flee.

Oh. My. God. Henry just ran right past I’m still a little shaken up but I’ll describe Henry. Abou 6ft 1in, he makes a sound that sounds like someone is saying

But the advance did not stop there. Much to their dismay, the Confederates charged again. This time, some of the weary and battered soldiers fled the battle scene afraid for their lives, Henry included. As the story deviates from the battle to Henry, the roars of war die down as well. After fleeing, Henry wandered about in a small forest, only to come across a clearing containing several horseback generals speaking excitedly to each other about the second victory. Ashamed with himself, Henry slowly walked back in the direction in which he came from, not wanting to face his regiment. But during his return trip, he discovered two things: a wounded procession of retreating soldiers and another large group of soldiers running away from something. After meeting and leaving the first group, Henry tried to stop one of the soldiers who was running, but the man, clearly in a hurry, brought up his rifle and whacked Henry over the head, causing him to let go, and stumble about, dazed and injured from the blow. At last, a soldier from his regiment discovered him, and slowly lead him back their camp, where he was given a blanket and a space in a tent to

Henry fought along side with the other soldiers in the first battle because they all put up a fight and didn't look scared or even a little frightened by the opposing soldiers. Henry ran during the second battle because he saw all the other solider who were around him starting to run. If they weren't scared from the first battle than they shouldn't have been scared of the second one, unless they knew something bad was going to happen or they were going to loose. He didn't want to run because he didn't was to be labeled a coward and become a pariah in his regiment.

In the following battle, another test of his manhood, Henry flees from his regiment along with a few soldiers near him. War is defined as a “blood-swollen god”, this is far from the romantic view he held at the first stage of his development (Crane, 23). He is ashamed to admit his fear to himself and brands himself a criminal. He is forced to hide in the forest so that he is not noticed by his crew. He attempts to justify his reaction by testing a squirrel. He tests the squirrel by throwing a pine cone at it to see if it will run, and it does (Crane, 44). This proves to himself that it is simply instinctive to run when your life is threatened. He soon

Henry was barely eighteen years of age when got to the thrown. He has been prepared ever since the death of his brother Arthur. At this age, he was not the kind of person you would