1. What is the theme of the last six chapters of the Red
Badge of Courage?
2. How do Henry change over the course of this portion of
the book?
3. How does the regiment change in these last few chapters?
4. How does Henry assess himself by the end of the story?
Explain
5. Overall, what kind of picture of war does this book
present? Provide examples from the text.
Eustace Eusebio
ReplyDelete1). The Civil War.
2). He got older.
3). They also got older. Some of it is dead now.
4). He got older. That's how time works.
5). Did they have picture taking devices during the Civil War Era? Trick question.
A real answer by Erasmus Eusebio
ReplyDelete1). It can be taken as 2 themes. Redemption or desperation. Henry's regiment fighting for their life, or Henry consciously choosing to fight.
2). At first, Henry was offended because he was insulted (fight like mules), but he used that as fuel to prove that the general was wrong.
3). The regiment was very fickle. At first they were scared, but they were fired up by Henry and his fieryness. But they also got scared and discouraged, but then back to all fighty and stuff.
4). He is a man. He made mistakes, and he tried to fix the mistakes. He did stuff he regretted, but then he redeemed himself. He's just a normal man facing obstacles thrown by life, sometimes confronting them and other times running away.
5). It was bloody and realistic. It just showed people fighting people. At first the Confederates were villianized, but Henry sees them as just people. It was just a terrible time that no one really wanted to be a part of, but they had to fight for their side (of the mountain).
1) I think the theme of this last part of the book would be something along the lines of proving your worth.
ReplyDelete2) At the beginning of the book Henry is extremely hopeful yet naive, towards the middle after the first battle, he starts to fully realize what he got himself into; and in this last part, he feels to need to go against the mistake he made before and the low expectations of others and stand up.
3) One could say the regiment went through the same changes as Henry, constantly fleeing battle before but towards the end, they muster up the strength and courage to finish off the enemy.
4) Henry finally sees himself as one of the fulfilled veterans of battle that he longed to be before, having overcome that guilt and determining his worth based on the good he did, he now considers himself a man.
5) This shows war as being something that is utterly destructive, yet somehow, with a group of likeminded individuals, it draws them closer together in union against a common cause. It helps to view it as something that brings out both the best and worst of humanity.
1.)The theme is Henry's and the regiments redemption. Henry wants to redeem himself from his actions earlier when he left the battlefield and the regiment because they weren't a very good regiment and were being insulted by the general for being a bad regiment. They both improve tremendously both Henry and the regiment and redeem themselves
ReplyDelete2.) He stops being as scared, he has found a courage that he didn't have in the first battle in which he ran away and retreated from the regiment. He overcomes and doesn't run away instead he actually advances and charges in the battle field instead of retreating.
3.) It's a machine and a troop, working together final. They were not the best regiment being called "mule drivers" previously but actually having a good battle in which the made progress, not much but still something to be proud of.
4.) He regrets the things that 'The youth' did such as the tattered man but is moving past it because he isn't the same person as he was a week ago. He's sees himself as a man now. He says it himself that he thinks he has become a man after his experiences.
5.)A realistic and psychological version of war. It got into the mind of an average soldier and was extremely graphic at times, holding no punches and explaining each scene with the more gory details of the battlefield.