Henry feels he's overcome his fears, until the enemy charges again. Henry, no longer feeling part of the team, pictures the enemy as super human soldiers about to trample him. He runs. He overhears generals celebrating their victory.
Chapter 7
Henry resents the victory, accusing his fellow soldiers of being stupid and lucky. He throws a pine cone at a squirrel and watches it run off.
Chapter 8
Henry starts to head back the way he came from. The noise of the battles are very loud. There are dead men all over the place. There are also men bleeding and falling to the ground. Henry spots a wounded man with a shoe full of blood laughing. A man latches on to Henry and tries to talk to him and ask Henry where he is wounded. Henry moves as far away from the man as possible
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Jim eventually runs off the road and dies.
Chapter 10 Henry and the man are amazed at Jim Conklin's strength. The man thought Henry was his best friend at back home. Henry runs back to the road and lets the man die.
Chapter 11
Henry sees a group of soldiers and wishes to join them. He is trying to think of an excuse of why he has been missing.
Chapter 12
Henry sees a group of soldiers fleeing. He grabs one of them to ask them what is going on but the soldier responds by putting the butt of the gun into Henry's head and leaves Henry slightly wounded. A compassionate soldier helps Henry back to his regiment.
Chapter 13
Henry returns back to the unit where everyone is asleep except the guard. They take care of Henry's wound.
Chapter 14
Henry wakes up. Nearly half of the unit left during battle but returned in the night.\
Chapter 15
Henry scorns the other soldiers for running wildly while he ran with discretion
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Henry fled from the second battle because he did not fully understand the responsibility of being at war. He was just a boy trying to do what’s right. Angst and inner conflict welled within his conscience from participating in the first battle, but the lieutenant of his regiment filled his and his comrades’ spirit full of false security and bravery, making the first battle easier to bear.
Henry fights along with the other soldiers in the first battle, yet he flees from the scene when the second battle ensues. Henry had a confusing opinion about the battles being fought. He believed that the first battle was a sure fire win and that the second battle was a complicated one to win. The battles were both very different.
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.
In the first battle Henry thinks he has overcome his fear and he fights valiantly. Henry and his fellow soldiers engage in battle. Henry faces the enemy and fires repeatedly, and the enemy leaves. I would say Henry feels accomplished. He has overcome a portion of his fears and gains confidence as he works with the other soldiers of his regiment to hold the line. Along with his fellow soldiers, Henry stands his ground and makes some movements toward confidence and maturity.
Henry’s impetus action foregrounds his immaturity as he ‘didn’t consider’ the decision fully, not acknowledging the risk involved. This immaturity is in stark contrast to the steadfast, resolute behaviour exhibited by the soldiers through the novel on countless occasions. Henry showed a careless and unnecessary disregard for his own safety, unlike that of the soldiers where their risk-taking was
When the men regroup for the second attack, many of the Union soldiers around henry begin to run away. Henry gives into the pressure and joins in the retreat, he wasn’t prepared for the horror that war brings. As he’s running, he seems to observe everyone else around him. He sees his captain lying stretched on the ground, dead, the babbling man was grazed by a shot to the head, and another man grunted as he was struck in the stomach, along with many others that just started dropping to the ground. As Henry ran, he feared for his life that he was going to be struck in the back, but he continued running. The thought of self-preservation seemed more important to him than fighting with selflessness and bravery along with the other
Henry Fleming enlists as a youth with heroic fantasies of battle lingering in his mind and walks off the "place of blood and wrath" three days later a serene veteran of battle. He came from hot plowshares seeking a Homeric Iliad, timid and anxious about his potential and what others think of him. He ponders a great dilemma: will he run from battle? He is reassured after asking the tall soldier his question. His friend tells him that he would do what the rest of the regiment was doing. Henry is not an individual yet, he is a
" This for Henry shows confidence with his squadron and can fight the help of brave soldiers and win a war. The book like the movie I liked, a simple book to read and understand with great events and a bit repetitive, this means that almost always mentioned several environments as the smoke of each battle that prevents you from seeing beyond, in all battles mention them, if it is a war it is very easy to see blood, noise, fear but I think I lack more creativity in this aspect, but I recommend it as a book for beginners so that little by little you like books and novels
During the second battle, Henry faced deep and overwhelming bouts of anxiety. He felt hopeless and though his best option was to leave the battle. In Chapter 6 page 41, Henry "seemed to shut his eyes and wait to be gobbled". He felt as if his sole efforts could not be demonstrated and his best option was to flee from his regiment. Henry felt
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
First, one should focus on the language and Henry's ethos. The soldiers are burdened with the thought of a
“The Youth,” which Henry is referred to as, dreamt of glory in battle and being a hero (Crane 2). That is the reason why Henry enlisted himself; even though he told his comrades he was forced to be in the army. His mother’s farewell speech is ironic because he thought that she would give him a tearful and long speech, but all she really said was to “Watch out, and be a good boy” (4). She does not want Henry to be a hero even though that is what he went to war for. She told Henry that she will be fine if he does not return home. Henry tries to pull off being a confident and good soldier, while in the reality he is very nervous about what will happen in battle. Throughout the novel, he questions his courage and if he would run from battle. At an early battle, Henry continuously fires at the enemy line and feels like he is a courageous soldier. However, soon after this battle, another one erupts and Henry runs from it. This is
In the first battle it seemed like Henry was more excited and his adrenaline was running. He wanted to observe what battle was and show strength to his fellow soldiers. Henry gained confidence as his regiment drove back the enemy. His excitement in the moment gets him more involved with moving horses, flags and wounded men. “He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part - a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country - was in crisis.” Henry was beginning to think like a leader.
He described that he couldn’t escape even if he wanted to. Through this analogy, the reader can see that Henry is reducing the soldiers to unthinking, unfeeling machines, performing their duty without taking into account the threat of injury or death. As he looks around at the faces of the rest of the soldiers in his regiment, he notices their focused commitment to the firing of their rifles. He wonders if he is the only one faced with questions of morality. While the regiment began to advance, Henry was shocked to receive a packet of letters from Wilson, who feared he would die in battle. After the battle, he is glad that he made it through the first day. He begins to lose the romantic vision of war by seeing the realities, but he starts lying to himself about who is really is.
Henry's fears take over, and his only way to achieve his self comfort again is to run away from the battle. Henry uses the forest to calm himself. The forest is where he begins to overcome his selfish ways, he reflects back on the battle and the men, and starts to believe that he can be of help to one or more of the men in the regiment. Henry eventually wins over the fear and joins with another regiment to fight against the rebels.