24. Red Badge of Courage chapters 9-20

I do not think that these several chapters were a reflective of realism and the first set were. In chapters nine through twenty, Henry went to war several more times. The difference was that now, Henry was not running away like he did before, he instead was being very brave and fighting hard the whole time. Henry could now be considered a hero in a sense, since he was fighting and being courageous instead of fleeing and being a coward. At one point, he was so into the battle that he was shooting and reloading over and over agian so fast that he did not realize when the battle was over and the enemy was gone, and he just kept shooting until he heard another soldier laughing at him. This was a very important moment for many reasons. First of all, the kind of bravery that Henry's actions showed here made his officers take notice of him and see that maybe Henry is capable of more and better things than anyone had originally thought. The fact that the people who were in charge of Henry and who he looked up to thought highly of Henry now gave him a sense of pride and job well done, and boosted his confidence many times over. He felt like an entirely new soldier, tenfold better than before. While this was a very encouraging moment for Henry, another moment later on was not as reassuring. Henry overheard a general ask an officer if he could spare a unit, and the officer reliped saying that if he had to spare a unit it would have to be the 304th, because they fight very poorly. This would not be so bad if the 304th unit was any other unit, but it happened to be the one Henry was in. When he heard this, Henry was very upset and offended to say the least. Later on, while walking, a soldier walking with Henry and Wilson falls and drops the flag. Henry standing next to him picked up the flag and kept walking with it.