Summary Of The Red Badge Of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage Summary
The Red Badge of Courage, a movie directed by John Huston, tells the story of a young conscripted soldier named Henry Fleming. The plot is spurred when his Union regiment is forced into battle for the first time ever. While most of the men are running around and cheering for warfare and shooting at others, Henry is apprehensive and wary. He feels like an outsider, on the edges of his regiment’s culture, because he doesn’t think he will be brave enough to fight. And he isn’t. Twenty-eight minutes into the movie, Henry runs from a deadly battle in which his regiment is likely to be overridden by the enemy, the “Rebels,” into some woods, where he stays for a while. In the woods, he overhears a general talking to another general about the outcome of the battle, in which his regiment won, over uncountable odds. Guilty and somber, he returns to the battlefield where they are evacuating the injured, longing for a wound, a red badge of honor, and is envious of those with one. …show more content…
For him, death has been a distant thing, but to come so up close and personal with it is a different experience, and this is a major turning point for him. Henry runs, yet again. He runs onto the deserted battlefield and gets hit on the head for doing so, going unconscious for a few hours. The night watchman finds him unconscious, and takes him back to the campsite, with Henry wishing for a bloody wound on his head to show off and going so far with that idea as to tell the medical staff that he got shot in the head; however, there’s only a large-sized bump from getting conked in the
The Red Badge of Courage, a movie directed by John Huston, tells the story of a young conscripted soldier named Henry Fleming. The plot is spurred when his Union regiment is forced into battle for the first time ever. While most of the men are running around and cheering for warfare and shooting at others, Henry is apprehensive and wary. He feels like an outsider, on the edges of his regiment’s culture, because he doesn’t think he will be brave enough to fight. And he isn’t. Twenty-eight minutes into the movie, Henry runs from a deadly battle in which his regiment is likely to be overridden by the enemy, the “Rebels,” into some woods, where he stays for a while. In the woods, he overhears a general talking to another general about the outcome of the battle, in which his regiment won, over uncountable odds. Guilty and somber, he returns to the battlefield where they are evacuating the injured, longing for a wound, a red badge of honor, and is envious of those with one. …show more content…
For him, death has been a distant thing, but to come so up close and personal with it is a different experience, and this is a major turning point for him. Henry runs, yet again. He runs onto the deserted battlefield and gets hit on the head for doing so, going unconscious for a few hours. The night watchman finds him unconscious, and takes him back to the campsite, with Henry wishing for a bloody wound on his head to show off and going so far with that idea as to tell the medical staff that he got shot in the head; however, there’s only a large-sized bump from getting conked in the