Comparing Soldier's Heart And The Red Badge Of Courage

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Charlie and Henry are both characters in the two novellas The Soldier’s Heart and The Red Badge of Courage. The two novellas have just a few differences. The two novellas have a whole heap of resemblances and tell a similar story. The Soldier’s Heart and The Red Badge of Courage have a whole heap of similarities with very few differences. The two novellas have just a small number of differences here are a few. Charlie came from Minnesota and Henry came from Ohio. At the start of the war Henry decided to run from the war he was a coward. Charlie on the other hand, decided to stay and battle with his men. Throughout the war both boys suffered an injury, although in two different ways. Henry was clubbed on the cranium by a rifle nevertheless

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