The Red Badge of Courage | Part Two

Chapters VII through XIII
Henry is full of conflicting feelings. On the one hand he feels like a criminal for running away, and on the other, he feels as though he has been cheated by fate of his glorious career as a brave soldier. He imagines how humiliated he will be if he returns to his regiment, and in a fit of rebellion and despair he sets off through the woods, away from the Union Army. He seeks solace in Nature, which he imagines to be a sympathetic woman "with a deep aversion to tragedy." As he goes deeper into the woods, Henry becomes more calm and...

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