Summary
Henry Fleming is a young person with sentimental ideas about the glories of war. He enrolls in the Union armed forces and rapidly finds sides of himself he never knew existed. Him joining the army was a result of his mother telling him that he should never run from battle. “‘I don’t know what else to tell you, Henry, except that you must never avoid your duty, child. If a time comes when you have to be killed or do a bad thing, Henry, don’t think of anything except what’s right.’” (page 4) The trepidation, boredom, and maltreatment of war draw out the greater part of Henry's most noticeably bad (and sometimes best) inclinations. At first, Henry fears that he will run like a coward or a weakling when confronted with his first fight. He's been in the armed force for some …show more content…
I'm not going to imagine that I correctly understood even 50% of what the author, Stephen Crane, was attempting to state. Even by this the passage affected me, and changed my thought process. As I would see it he's a splendid writer.It's an account of an extremely youthful and unpracticed officer in the common war named Henry. It recounts his internal battles discovering strength and understanding this horrific thing called battle. It is utterly disturbing on occasion to read a portion of the story he portrays, not on the grounds that it's realistic, but rather just candidly awful and heartbreaking. In the wake of perusing this, I could truly feel myself in his shoes, therefore i would indeed recommend this book to all, students, friends, family, really anyone willing to try to understand it. It is supremely helpful as it shows how a little courage can go a long way and how many people in the world today should base at least a little bit of their daily morals on what was represented in the
Henry Fleming is a young person with sentimental ideas about the glories of war. He enrolls in the Union armed forces and rapidly finds sides of himself he never knew existed. Him joining the army was a result of his mother telling him that he should never run from battle. “‘I don’t know what else to tell you, Henry, except that you must never avoid your duty, child. If a time comes when you have to be killed or do a bad thing, Henry, don’t think of anything except what’s right.’” (page 4) The trepidation, boredom, and maltreatment of war draw out the greater part of Henry's most noticeably bad (and sometimes best) inclinations. At first, Henry fears that he will run like a coward or a weakling when confronted with his first fight. He's been in the armed force for some …show more content…
I'm not going to imagine that I correctly understood even 50% of what the author, Stephen Crane, was attempting to state. Even by this the passage affected me, and changed my thought process. As I would see it he's a splendid writer.It's an account of an extremely youthful and unpracticed officer in the common war named Henry. It recounts his internal battles discovering strength and understanding this horrific thing called battle. It is utterly disturbing on occasion to read a portion of the story he portrays, not on the grounds that it's realistic, but rather just candidly awful and heartbreaking. In the wake of perusing this, I could truly feel myself in his shoes, therefore i would indeed recommend this book to all, students, friends, family, really anyone willing to try to understand it. It is supremely helpful as it shows how a little courage can go a long way and how many people in the world today should base at least a little bit of their daily morals on what was represented in the