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Comparing A Soldier's Heart And Red Badge Of Courage

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War is something human nature cannot seem to avoid. In both A Soldiers Heart and Red Badge of Courage, there is a lot of war, and a lot of death that the main characters witness. Though their stories may seem similar, Henry and Charley are two very different people. They both fought in war, but experienced different events in the meantime. They both suffered great loss, trauma, and not only a physical war, but also, a war within themselves. These books, all in all, are very much alike but they still have their differences the more you read into them.
Henry and Charley are their own people and are different in a few ways. Though it was possible for both young men to have families, Charley surely made his admiration and concern for them more known. While, Henry, hardly seemed to mention his family. As far as how the books started, Red Badge of Courage started out with Henry at a war camp and in A Soldiers Heart, it started with Charley at his home, with his family. And while Henry seemed to be the right age for war, Charley had faked his age to enter. One would personally believe that even though these books may seem almost identical to each other, that the way the …show more content…

While Henry had just followed along his dying friends and fellow soldiers, Charley had saw a man wounded and tried to help in any way he could. Not only that, but when things got tough, even though they both were scared, Charley had stayed with his group while Henry decided to make a run for it the moment things got tough. In the end of the stories, Charley had suffered great trauma, along with a case of PTSD and depression causing suicidal thoughts while Henry, though still probably suffering trauma, redeemed himself and fought alongside his men. Though both stories were about brave men, few would believe that, in A Soldiers Heart, Charley had been the braver of the two stories as well as the most

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The excerpt we read from Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage and Yusef Komunyakaa's poem camouflaging the Chimera have some similarities and differences apart from them being decades apart. Some of the similarities and differences between the two works include themes, language, and genre. The themes of the works are very different because in Crane's piece the theme is about one young soldier who wants to be remembered after the civil war as war hero and eventually have a statue built in his honor. In Komunyakaa's piece the point of view of a whole group of soldiers.

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Lastly, certain things trigger Charley to remember things about the war, such as coffee on page 99. It says, “The army ad taught him to like coffee, live on coffee, and he still drank it even though it knotted his guts.” Also, his injuries from the war make him seem and feel older than he really his. Charley states that he knows that it won’t be long for him and her wouldn’t mind dying.

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In “the Red Badge of Courage” the Narrator only focuses on one main character “the youth,” Henry Fleming's is more of an outsider. Henry is just watching other soldiers fight while he’s doing his own. “The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight. He could never be like them.” It tells us how isolated he is.

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Charley had another mate, Nelson, his first battle, and he gets a shot to the belly, and the ambulance doesn't pick up belly-injured soldiers because there wasn't really much they could do for them. Later on Charley was on watch, and a Rebel was talking to him, they traded then that night, and then the Rebel got screamed at for talking with the enemy. The next night, he wasn't there. It was a different soldier because, when Charley tried to start a conversation, the other soldier shot at him, but he missed. After that, it was winter time, and Charley was feeling really alone, and then the sick had to have meat so Charley had to kill a horse for them.

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Flashbacks of him in the war, him seeing his friends being killed, him starving and having to fight and kill people. Instead of running and working and having a family, CHarley is alone by himself with no family, and no kids. He can’t run, because he has a limp and was hurt during the war. Charley is in pain and wants to die.

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All the excitement in the beginning of the war is so deceiving. Never did Charley know he is going to end up like this with “soldier’s heart”. He is a go getter in the beginning of the book with so much spirit. On the other hand, now Charley barely moves and never stops thinking about the war. The helpful, spirit filled Charley from the beginning of the book is gone.

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