Monday, April 25, 2011

Page 92-131

These few chapters are ones of realization for Henry. Henry walks along a path to find a "column" of soldiers, obviously wounded by battle. We meet the "tattered man", who talks to Henry, but is let down when Henry walks by. Henry, seeing all of these wounds becomes jealous of their "red badge[s] of courage". Henry is, through this admiration, astonished that his friend Jim is among these wounded soldiers. Henry is wrecked when he leads his friend into the fields, only to watch him die. The tattered man is with Henry again, but has become apparently woosy, but there is no chance for him dying by his own will, for he has a family to support.Henry cannot witness a second death, and leaves, though this man's cries for him to stay.

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