Lines 1-17 of the poem demonstrate that people find the most of their bravery and persistence when all seems lost through being a connected united force as they charge forward despite their current state. Their location is described as a type of battlefield, preparing to charge forth. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” (Alfred 5), as a man undescribed tells his comrades to stand and fight. They persist and travel into the, “Valley of Death,” (Alfred 16), death in my assumptions representing the loss that when they travel in, it is their end, they will not return and will be gone forever. The outcome would make one think that the soldiers would lose their hope and give up knowing they would not continue their gallant journeys, instead they do continue