the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage, In According to this excerpt, what is the outcome of
the excerpt, Henry Fleming and the soldiers in his
regiment are marching after performing poorly in a
Henry and his lieutenant's differing perspectives?
battle. Henry is expressing discontent about his
commanding officers' leadership and the lieutenant of
Henry's regiment expresses his feelings toward his
men.
"Good Gawd," the youth grumbled, "we're always
being chased around like rats! It makes me sick.
Nobody seems to know where we go or why we go.
We just get fired around from pillar to post and get
licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows
what it's done for.... Now, I'd like to know what the
eternal thunders we was marched into this woods for
anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot
shot at us. We came in here and got our legs all
tangled up in these cussed briars, and then we begin
to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it. Don't tell
The lieutenant gets into a physical altercation with
the soldiers.
Henry and the other soldiers go silent.
Henry suddenly decides to join the rebels.
The lieutenant provides evidence that his strategy
was correct