Abstract: Henry walks up a small hill after he left the tattered solider. When he gets to the top, he sees soliders retreating, and soliders going to the front lines. The ones going to the front looked prideful to Henry. He thought that the retreating soliders justified him also retreating. Henry also seems kind of jealous of the soliders that are going to the front lines. He wants to feel like they do. He then thinks of reasons that he can't go though. He doesn't have a rifle and it would be extremely difficult to find his regiment. When he is going to join them, he begins to doubt himself even more though. He doesn't know how he will explain his previous disappearance to his fellow soliders. He then begins to notice more of his ailments like body aches and thirst. He then realizes that he is selfish, but he doesn't want to go anyway. He also once again says that he would rather be a corpse. At the end of the chapter, Henry gives up completely and decides not to join in with the other soliders.
Response: Henry just needs to get the courage to get out and fight. It is kind of annoying he is so wishy-washy. He should just run away since he is so scared to fight. He either needs to get over his fears and embrace them and not be so afraid of others opinons. He is really being a sort of a baby. He won't go and fight because he is scared the others will make sly remarks about him and make fun of him. He is being selfish and is truly only thinking about himself. He shouldn't care and should just go out and fight. Their are also a lot of colors used to describe things in war in this chapter and Henry's many moods. For example, the author uses phrases like red wings of war, and black weight of his woe.
Characters: Henry's full name is Henry Fleming.
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