Set during the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage is about the “youth” Henry Fleming, who, having “dreamed of battles all his life,” joins the Union army. But at the front there is a problem. Henry “lay in his bunk pondering upon it. He tried to mathematically prove to himself …
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