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The Red Badge Of Courage Analysis

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No it was not wrong for Henry to run from the battlefield. He ran from something he had heard offrom only in stories from those who actually fought. He believed that war was honor filled. The war in reality, when Henry realized was filled with blood, death, and the reports of muskets and cannons. This creates the conflict: would he stay and become one of the faceless and nameless corpses on the battlefield, or run and live to fight another day. When he abandoned the tattered soldier, he was trying to run from the reality that Jim was dead. He was also running from the tattered soldier’s insensitive comments about how strong Jim was in life But he couldn’t outrun the tattered man even though he tries to run away from him he and those comments
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