Summary Of The Red Badge Of Courage

The novel The Red Badge of Courage was written by Stephen Crane and published in 1895. Stephen Crane was born November 1, 1871 and died June 5, 1900.

The Red Badge of courage took place on battlefields during the American Civil War. The story takes place during the American Civil War. The Civil War was fought between the northern states, the Union soldiers, and the southern states, the Confederates. The forces were fighting over slavery, before President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in 1862. The war ended in 1865.

The historical context of The Red Badge of Courage is that it takes place during the American Civil War. The novel talks about the realities of the war and how it had an impact on the soldiers.

The narrator of the novel is Henry Fleming, who is also the protagonist. Henry Fleming is a young boy - not even considered to be a man - who goes off to war to become a man. Henry is lacking courage when he is in battle because it is not what he thought it would be. He thought at one point that he would be better off dead to

Jim Conklin is a Union soldier in the same regiment as Henry. Jim gets injured during the first battle and shortly after, he dies. Wilson is noisy and immature during the first half of the novel. In the second half, Wilson becomes mature after giving Henry and envelope. The tattered soldier and Henry meet after a battle. He tries to help Henry because he is wounded. Henry doesn’t want the soldiers help because he is trying to help Jim as he is dying. The tattered soldier is very emotional when Henry runs away to Jim and when the sergeant makes fun of him. The lieutenant, the chief of Henry’s regiment, and Henry attempt to motivate the guys. Henry’s mother was only in a flashback during the first part of the novel. She gives advice to Henry for when he goes off to the war and tells him that she will send him