Red Badge Of Courage Chapter 9 Summary

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Chapter 9: Still running away from the tattered man, he sees more wounded man surrounding him. He is jealous of them having a wound and wants to have a wound to prove that he had the “Red Badge of Courage” (Crane 57). Then he sees Jim running toward him, wounded with fresh blood. He was worried that Jim might die in battle, knowing that both of them just became friends at camp. Jim tells Henry that he is scared to fall or being run over by an artillery wagon. Henry promises that he will protect Jim from the battle. Somehow, Jim found some strength to move a little, and the tattered man that Henry ran away from, and Henry himself tries to follow Jim. The tattered man was surprised that Jim could move with all the wounds that he had. However,…show more content…
He noticed the fear and enthusiasm in the soldiers face in the battle and saw some of the soldiers retreating from the war as well. He also wondered what the men have been through throughout the war to possess fear and wanted to know what it was to be in their shoes. Trying to examine the feelings of the soldiers, he gets his own feeling of enthusiasm, but the enthusiasm that he possesses is violent, as he thought of dying in the war or standing in the front line and imagining that it can be a historic picture. However, reality had hit him later to find out that he has no rifle and is starving. He decides to hide from the battle but tries to watch the battle from the distance and see who will win, because he has no weapon. He also believes that the Unions will not lose the war that they are in, based on his predictions. He also thinks of finding his regiment during the war, but he knows that it would be hard, so he decided who would fight with any regiment that is in the Union when he is prepared. Thinking of his preparation, he tries to find out an excuse for his action from running away from his post in war, but he is afraid that the Union will call him a coward for what he has
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