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the opposing side, the confederacy

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There is rumor that the army is about to march, or go into war. Henry, a young soldier is fearful of the battle and is scared that he will run from it. Throughout the novel, Henry finds himself and goes from boy to man and learns to deal with loss along the way.

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Why does Henry worry so much?

One of the big themes in the novel is masculinity. Henry is constantly concerned about being the best man he can be. The dude is serving in the army during the war...it's given that he has to be masculine.

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Dramatic Irony - Henry has hindsight of what he could have done in the past. As the reader we know this before the character even realizes it.

Foreshadowing - Henry constantly worries about going into battle and doesn’t know what he will do. The foreshadowing comes in when he begins to run and we don’t know what move he’ll make but can assume that he is going to fight.

Symbolism - Henry wants a “red badge of courage” to symbolize his hard work and being wounded in war.

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They gazed about them with looks of uplifted pride, feeling new trust in the grim, always confident weapons in their hands and they were men.”

Also shows how they went from boys to men. They were all so proud of themselves and courageous throughout their service.

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“He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee, no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.”

This shows that he did not care as much about himself and cared more about serving the Union and doing whatever he had to do and put full effort in.

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“The youth had been taught that a man became another thing in a battle. He saw his salvation in such a change”

This shows that Henry, along with everyone else fighting, had to grow from a boy to a man in a short amount of time and get the job done to serve in the war.

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courageous
masculine
confidence
battle
sometimes fearful

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a town in Virginia during the Civil War

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Serves as an annoying conscience to Henry.

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A private for the Union that comes to be one of Henry’s good friends.

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Jim is another soldier for the Union Army and is a friend of Henry’s. He ends up dying early on in the novel from a gunshot wound.

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Henry is the protagonist of the story. He is a young, hard working soldier for the Union Army and can sometimes have a big head and be vain.