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Sean Devey 9/27/09 I selected //__The Red Badge of Courage__// because it is related to war. I have always been fascinated with war, so I thought this would be a good book to read. I thought for this novel I would need to know about war, but it turns out I didn’t. It uses language not commonly used today, but it is easy enough to figure out. Some of the words I was not familiar with were words like haversack, pickets, and Huns.

The book starts out in early morning with some soldiers just waking up and some soldiers already up doing various tasks. One man is returning from the river banks and telling everybody that he just heard that the rival army is finally going to attack them, and they were going to have to move positions. This sent everybody into brouhaha. Some soldiers were excited, some were mad. Some soldiers didn’t even believe the rumor.

This story is told by a young soldier who just joined the army. Before he joined the army, he lived on a farm with only his mother and a few milking cows. When he first told his mother he wanted to join the army, she immediately said, “No.” After several days of convincing, she still wasn’t too sure of it. So, he made the decision himself and went to register for the army. He came back home told his mom that he had just enrolled the army, and was leaving to start on Monday. He is now a soldier of the military and one of the major characters in //__The Red Badge of Courage__//.