Chapter 8

Abstract: When Henry hears the noises of the battle, he stops and is transfixed. He then runs towards the sounds of the battle. When he gets to the battle field, he sees corpses. He then comes upon the wounded after he passes the field.Henry then continues to walk with the wounded. He is walking beside a tattered man. The tattered man likes to listen and is listening to a sergeant's conversation until the sergeant notices him and says something. The tattered solider then tries to befriend Henry. He talks to him about the battle, and he thinks it was a good fight. Henry panics when he asked him where he was wounded. Henry kind of mumbles and then walks away because he isn't wounded. The tattered man just looked at him in astonishment.

Response: Henry is so wishy-washy. He hates war one moment and runs from it in fear, but then in another moment he runs towards it because he is awed by it. I think Henry just wants to fit in. He wanted to join the army to be like others and be looked upon as a hero. He kind of just follows the crowd. He runs when they run and stays when they stay. He is scared to sort of think for himself, but on the other hand he is kind of selfish because he ran away from the battle because he was afraid of dying. He obviously did not want to die for his country/cause which is what he signed up to do. Why doesn't he just run away from the army all together since he is so scared?

Characters: Tattered man: likes to listen. Wounded in the head and arm. Loves the army.