Illustration of Henry Fleming in a soldier's uniform in front of a confederate flag and an American flag

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge of Courage Questions and Answers

What are some conflicts in The Red Badge of Courage? What type of conflict is each? 

Why doesn't Stephen Crane name all of his characters in "Red Badge of Courage"?

In The Red Badge of Courage, the youth fears two things. What are they?  Also, find an example of personification in Chapter 2. 

How does Henry's mother's advice echo throughout The Red Badge of Courage? What situations in the text seem to resemble situations the mother warned him about? 

Compare and contrast Henry, Wilson, and Jim in The Red Badge of Courage. What does each character seem to represent? How is Henry different from any other character?

In The Red Badge of Courage, how is Naturalism presented?

Crane repeatedly uses animal images to describe the regiment’s fighting in The Red Badge of Courage. What are the three animals?

How does Henry react during his first battle in Red Badge of Courage, and what is the outcome of the battle?

What is the meaning of the title, "The Red Badge of Courage"?

Why does Henry want to be killed directly in The Red Badge of Courage? In chapters 3-5 Why does Henry think "it would be better to get killed directly"?

In what ways do you think the qualities Henry shows in battle in The Red Badge of Courage would be useful in war today? Explain.

What are three examples from The Red Badge of Courage that define Henry as a hero?

Why is the youth compared metaphorically to a 'jaded horse' in the novel The Red Badge of Courage?

What is the climax, declining action and resolution in The Red Badge of Courage?

At first, the narrator of The Red Badge of Courage looks on the Civil War with distrust, as if it were some “play affair.” What happens to change his mind about the war, and encourage him to enlist?

What do you think the weather is a symbol of in The Red Badge of Courage? In the final two paragraphs of the story, it rains and then turns to sunshine. The weather is used here as a symbol--an object, place, or concept (in this case the weather) used in literature to represent something more important. What do you think the weather is a symbol of?

What sentence in the first half of the book, "The Red Badge of Courage", shows an allusion? This is for an English class.

What is naturalism in "The Red Badge of Courage" and what is the relationship between fears, surviving and nature and naturalism in the novel?

What are some meaningful quotes from chapters chapters 16 and 17 of The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane?

In The Red Badge of Courage, what are some insignificant incidents that happen within the first few chapters? And what is Stephen Crane's purpose for including them so early in the book?

What are key quotes from chapters 11 and 15 of The Red Badge of Courage?   I am looking for quotes that demonstrate Henry's feelings and thoughts as he comes to terms with his experiences and reflects on his feelings about the future. This is for discussion with accelerated 6th graders... I have never taught this book or grade school literature.  

Where did most of the action in The Red Badge of Courage take place? I have been looking for additional information in the web about the novel. Crane never mentioned the name of the battle, but it is supposed to be during the Civil War. He mentioned the Rappahannock river near Richmond and may be the battle was Chancellorsville. I am very confused and I am not sure if it is right to answer that most of the action in the book took place in the battlefield. I also need help describing the place.

In "The Red Badge of Courage," what makes Henry feel like a "mental outcast"?

In The Red Badge of Courage, what are important quotes from Chapters 11-13?

Comment on the narrative technique adopted in The Red Badge of Courage.

In the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, What do you think was the purpose of the religious symbolism in chapter seven when Henry finds the dead soldier?

What does "his visions of broken-bladed glory" mean in The Red Badge of Courage?

What did one of the soldiers attempt to steal from a civilian in "The Red Badge of Courage"?

What challenging or stressful situations does Henry face in The Red Badge of Courage?

What is the tone in The Red Badge of Courage?  Positive, neutral, or negative?

In the novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry thinks that "Nature was not quite ready to kill him." What does he mean and why does he think that? The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

How many girls are in this book?

What are the major events between chapters 1-6 in "The Red Badge of Courage"? What are some of the emotions during these chapters?

What did Henry want as a "red badge of courage?"

In chap. 5 Crane describes the officers as having "neglected to stand in picturesque attitudes."  What does this mean and/or signify? "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane

Alone in the woods, how does Henry justify his flight? The book is The Red Badge of Courage.

In the last paragraph of Chapter 12 of The Red Badge of Courage, how might the man with the "cheery voice" be allegorical (Christ-like)?  What language supports this assertion?

Point out examples of the "isms" used in the novel The Red Badge of Courage. The "isms" are romanticism, realism, naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, and imagism.

What does Mafatu discover when he looks at the banana tree?

The youth "wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage". Why?

How do the chapters in The Red Badge of Courage show that Wilson is a dynamic character rather than a static one? Cite details for support.

At the start of The Red Badge of Courage, what color did the landscape change to?

How does the author convey his message/theme in The Red Badge of Courage?

In chapter 2 what is the "serpent"? The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

What inspired Henry to enlist in the red badge of courage?

In The Red Badge of Courage, why was Henry surprised after the first battle?

What rumor seems to be the most discussed? In The Red Badge of Courage in Chapter One.

What fear does Henry have as he returns to his regiment? How is he received? And what loud remarks does Henry make as the regiment waits to fight?

In Chapter 2 of The Red Badge of Courage, why does Henry remember the cows at home with "a halo of happiness" about their heads?

In the novel, The Red Badge of Courage, what is the name of Henry's regiment?