Henry Fleming Use Of Courage Analysis

Henry Fleming discovered his courage and bravery late in the story, but bringing out courage and bravery earlier in the book would encourage readers and add more interest. Some suspense will be created by adding twins, which will change the scene right after Henry Fleming sees his first dead corpse. The impact will be that Henry, instead of running away from battle, will run out onto the battlefield to rescue his “brother and sister”. Henry Fleming had been crossing the river with his gun high above his head. He was arriving his first ever war; what he thought was “death”. Crossing the river had taken most of Henry’s strength as he was at the tip of ruining his gun. If he got the gun powder soaked, he wouldn’t be able to fire bullets.
“Oye Henry you ok, say you get your gun sodden?”
“I’m fine Jim, my gun lives for another day.” Henry responded.
“Looks like you got some cuts, you sure you fine?
“Yea, surely you couldn’t get hurt with that height.”
“Well don’t think that, age can kill you sometimes.”
“You got me there.” Henry had gotten bruised up as the river swept rocks at his ankles. But this did not affect Henry much as he went on, trudging through the path. Henry thought to himself “how will I be able to overcome my fear, especially for every second, I’m scared of having a hole …show more content…
None of the soldiers really were concerned, as they were all thinking what was going to happen during the war. Henry was going to ask advice from Wilson and Jim with how to deal with the twins when they get to the battlefield. But they seemed to caught up in their gibberish conversation. Henry started digging a ditch with all the other soldiers to mark their territory, the twins were also forced to dig. Henry felt awful as they were already in bad condition. Henry would provide the last sips in his satchel to the twins. Henry was now probably eight-hundred feet from the