This passage is from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
Then the difficulties of the thing began to drag at him. He hesitated, balancing awkwardly on one foot. He had no rifle; he could not fight with his hands, said he resentfully to his plan. Well, rifles could be had for the picking. They were extraordinarily profuse. Also, he continued, it would be a miracle if he found his regiment. Well, he could fight with any regiment. He started forward slowly. He stepped as if he expected to tread upon some explosive thing. Doubts and he were struggling. He would truly be a worm if any of his comrades should see him returning thus, the marks of his flight upon him. There was a reply that the intent fighters did not care for what happened rearward saving that no hostile bayonets appeared there. In the battle-blur his face would, in a way be hidden, like the face of a cowled man.
Henry was making excuses for not rejoining the fighting. A+
Answered bt Mia~
The time period is 1863, during the Civil War.
The famous author of the historical US Civil War novel of The Red Badge of Courage was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Irony. Crane seems to almost be mocking the young private: "He, the lightened man who looks afar in the dark, had fled because of his superior perceptions and knowledge" (46).
Henry Fleming does not die in The Red Badge Of Courage because It mentions him staring into the river at the end of the book.
The tattered soldier insinuated he wouldn't die because he had children back home who depended on him.
well, the answer will be given to you by reading your book and by stop asking for answers to your questions on a site. go on..read.
that he has courage and that he is humble. He is willing to die for his country's freedom. Not many would do that.
It most likely means died.
If he had 10,000 like Henry, he could win the war in less than a week.
yes he ran away and then threw a pinecone at a squirrel. lol.
The title refers to the "red badges" that soldiers earned when they were injured. Henry Fleming, the main character, says that he wishes to have a red badge of courage to show his fellow soldiers.
his gun and cap
he knotted a handkerchief around his neck. A+
The girl argued with the soldier and his fellow soldiers took her side.
He says that he got lightly grazed off the top of the head with a bullet during combat, but in actuality, he gets hit over the head with a flailing rifle. The man bandaging him actually believes his story, though he initially thinks otherwise.
He thought it was all a trap.