True Honor The Red Badge of Courage is a tale of values, honor, conflicted motivations, and a crisis of purpose and meaning. The main character, Henry, is a young man who is forced to reconcile his naïve belief that war is desirous, glorious, and that the appearance of pain and suffering is honorable, with the horrible truth that war is frightening, destructive, and terrifyingly painful for those who are inflicted with a red badge of courage. The reader first meets Henry as a young man who maintains…
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