The Theme of Courage in Red Badge of Courage :: Red Badge Courage Essays

The Theme of Courage in wild Badge of Courage     The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional psychological portrait of a young soldier named hydrogen Fleming, tracing the thread of his emotions and reactions to events that transpire during an unnamed skirmish of the Civil War (spark nones). Henry is an average farmer from parvenue York. Henry wants to go to war and become a hero resembling the one he read around in his school. The story starts get through with everyone sitting in com creationd camp by the river with rumors flowing around. fleck everyone is mentation about what they will do in war, Henry was thinking of how is he going to react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was to die? He verbalise, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight. Two of the other guys in the array had about the same courage as Henry, but none of them ever said that they will not run away. Before he can go on to fight in battle, the arm y puts him in a battle to see if he runs away from fight or not.   The northern army is finally put on the move and marched across the river, where they meet with gray forces. Henrys regiment takes a reserve position, so Henry gets to see a battle before going in to an action himself. Finally his regiment drives plunk for the foe troops and Henry feels a joy of success. Then enemy charges again, but Henry flees thinking his regiment will be overflow by the enemy. As he running and trying to justify to himself wherefore he is running.   When he gets to the woods he sees a dead man in a clearing. Henry takes the man and runs to the armys rear to get the man some help. Instead he finds his friend Jim Conkin from his regiment, who has been shot in the side. Henry tried to help Jim with another man called dilapidated Soldier. Jim could not hold out on and died. After Jims death, Henry felt angry and left the Tattered Soldier alone to die in field, but it always came rachis to haunt Henry.   After he leaves the Tattered Soldier, he sees the enemy charging and rushes back to the union regiment.