and runs back into the woods. From behind a tree, he looks at all the wounded soldiers. “At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be particularly happy. He wished that he, too had a wound, a red badge of courage” This shows Henrys desire to be a wounded war hero. He does not want to be set apart from the other boys as a coward. As soon as the old soldier passed him, he went back to the lines and continued on with the boys. He starts walking next to Jim Conklin, a soldier that he knew pretty well. They are talking, when all of a sudden Jim runs away. He falls onto the ground and dies. This death has a very big affect on Henry. Jim was his first friend to be killed in battle. He feels guilty that Jim was put through so much pain, and he just ran away, like a coward. After spending the night sleeping near Jim’s corpse, Henry woke up and was ready to march again. He meets up with another tattered soldier, who is crazy and dying. Henry gets very angry at the mad for talking to him, and runs away, swearing that the man knows his secret. He refuses to go back to the regiment, because he thinks that everyone will regard him as a coward. All of a sudden, Henry sees the soldiers’ frantically running. One grabs him, and Henry asks him why they are running so frantically. The only response he gets is a whack in the head with the soldiers’ gun. A few moments later, when Henry is able to get up, he begins to march with passer by soldiers. A soldier walking next to him notices the wound on his head, and automatically assumes it to be a bullet wound. The kind-hearted soldier leads Henry back to his regiment. The first person Henry sees when he gets to the group is his friend Tom. In order to save face, Henry makes up a big story about how he got shot in the head, and then got separated from the regiment. Tom takes great care of Henry, cleans him up and makes sure...
