The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about Henry Fleming. Henry was a young soldier who enlisted in the army so that he would be known as a courageous person. Soon after Henry’s first battle started, he quickly deserted, and ran away into the woods. Although his fellow soldiers would consider this a cowardly act, Henry had believed that what he had done is smart. Subsequently Henry threw a pine cone at a squirrel and it ran off, Henry had believed that the law of nature is to protect oneself. War begins when political leaders have different opinions on things and begin to advertise propaganda against the other nation. Through this, people begin to believe that the opposing nation is the enemy and millions of people then go to war
