The Red Badge Of Courage 2

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deserts another friend dying and
runs. He wants to make a wound for himself so that he is removed from
the battle, and by accident is hit on the head by a deserter. He's
discovered by another soldier, who helps him return to his regiment.
There he lies and says he was wounded in battle. The next day he goes
to the front again, and actually retrieves his army's colors from the
dying flag bearer. He urges his comrads on, and is proclaimed a hero.
Crane wrote this book when he was twenty three years old, in
ten days. He had never been in battle and critics through the United
States and England could not believe that he had never seen war. His
sources were teachers athis small private school in New York State.
The book's genius is now regarded as an American masterpiece of
psychological writing. Unfortunately, it seems he was probably haunted
by the experience of this book and ultimately went to join the Spanish
American War. He was disqualified from fighting due to ...

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reappears. The youth feels it must be a
mistake. He sees men around him running and he feels he is being left
alone to die. He turns and runs. He runs into yet another battle
where, at the edge of the forest, he feels as if he's being kept in by
nature itself. That the branches of the trees are trying to halt his
progress. He sees his friend Jim Conklin shot through the stomach,
mortally wounded, and is told he should remove him from the battle.
Jim runs to the bushes before he dies to avoid being run over by war
wagons. Henry watches with an agony almost as great as his friend.
Henry tries to understand what Jim is thinking but cannot reach his
friend. Crane ends the chapter ...

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