Introduction
The book starts off During the Civil War, a Union regiment rests along a riverbank, they had been there for a while just waiting for something to happen. A tall soldier named Jim Conklin starts telling people that the enemy is going to March and attack soon. Henry Fleming, a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment, worries the he will get injured and is scared and doesn’t think he has the courage to go into battle and fight against an army of guys trying to kill him. He fears that if he were to actually go into battle that he could not stand the fear and would run and flee from the battle. The narrator reveals that Henry joined the army because he was drawn to the glory of military conflict but was too scared at the beginning to actually fight. Since the time he joined, however he’s just been waiting for a battle to erupt and cause the gore and the glory he is looking for since he join the army.
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The soldiers spend several long weary days walking through dirty muddy paths. Eventually they got to a battlefield and begin to hear the sounds of the conflict and they knew that a battle would son erupt. After getting ready and being where they wanted to get into battle the enemy charges. Henry was surrounded by his fellow soldiers and he wanted to flee the battle but realized that he could not because there was no way for him to get away from the solders around him. He fires randomly feeling weird like he’s part of a team. He fires at the enemy in sequence with the others just trying to hit a
The book starts off During the Civil War, a Union regiment rests along a riverbank, they had been there for a while just waiting for something to happen. A tall soldier named Jim Conklin starts telling people that the enemy is going to March and attack soon. Henry Fleming, a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment, worries the he will get injured and is scared and doesn’t think he has the courage to go into battle and fight against an army of guys trying to kill him. He fears that if he were to actually go into battle that he could not stand the fear and would run and flee from the battle. The narrator reveals that Henry joined the army because he was drawn to the glory of military conflict but was too scared at the beginning to actually fight. Since the time he joined, however he’s just been waiting for a battle to erupt and cause the gore and the glory he is looking for since he join the army.
Going in-depth into the story …show more content…
The soldiers spend several long weary days walking through dirty muddy paths. Eventually they got to a battlefield and begin to hear the sounds of the conflict and they knew that a battle would son erupt. After getting ready and being where they wanted to get into battle the enemy charges. Henry was surrounded by his fellow soldiers and he wanted to flee the battle but realized that he could not because there was no way for him to get away from the solders around him. He fires randomly feeling weird like he’s part of a team. He fires at the enemy in sequence with the others just trying to hit a