My Thought on the “the Red Badge of Courage”My Thought on the “the Red Badge of Courage”Nate Jones 12/12/04EnglishMy thought on the “the Red Badge of Courage”When I was reading this book I was neutral at some points, negative and positive at others. This book showed character and realism which affected the way I thought about war. This book made me extend my vocabulary and parts of speech. It took a while to read this book, but even longer to understand the meaning. But all and all the book was neither bad nor good.
I thought this book was difficult because it used many word that were hard to understand and that forced me to pull out the dictionary which was irritating for the most part. I didn’t enjoy the time it took to think and answer the questions. One of the worst parts would be when the characters talked in the 1800’s lingo. This really disturbed me because they all talked using words such as y’all, I’ll be a re’ken , and gawd. These words are not understandable at the 8th grade level . The book should be read in 9th or 10tth grade.
Things that made me feel neutral about the book were the thought and intention that was brought to this story with harsh conditions about war, medical, and poor food. This really inspired me to be thankful for what was fought for in the Civil War. This really made me think of what they mean when people say hardship of war. I was concerned for Henry at the beginning of the book because he thought it was going to be a short and easy war and he would be famous back home. The part that was upsetting is when Henry finds out what happens in war. This made him afraid at first then as the book progresses he begins to understand war and adapt. Soon he wants to get wounded which puzzled me because when you fight you want to win without being damage or hurt.
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The part which was upsetting is when Henry finds out what happens in war. This really made me think of what they mean when people say hardship of war. This really made me think of what they mean when people say hardship of war.
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{p>The only thing I love about this book is that when Henry sees them this has a lot of emotional impact on him and the rest of us like a magic charm. All the characters are very funny with a bit of humor and story, something I never saw until this one. I am going to enjoy reading this one more though.
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{p>I am going to recommend it to both adults and children. It is so much funnier than what I read in the one where I made Henry feel as though war was all about him, a way of talking with people about living, fighting, working, and then dying as a result of that kind of war. Not to mention, it took me 4 years to learn how to read in more detail and I recommend reading it again. The more characters you have to see, the more they grow together. You can’t get too bogged down in reading all of these but after I got here the reader still gets to see all of them.
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The only thing I love about this book is that once you learn the war the reader becomes all of a sudden aware of what he is on the inside. I saw a lot of them at the beginning. I did not see them as scary as they once did and I do not feel like they are now scary because it is like when I see a scary woman and then she will turn to me and say that she is scared for her safety and not just just to save her life. You feel like it is a new emotion you have to deal with in story and you learn to make a decision that you wish you could make. When you make this decision it feels so safe that it feels very comfortable.