CHAPTER EIGHT.

Finally,I can fill in the tattered soldier blank on my characters list. Chapter eight opens up very ironically. The entire story Henry has had doubts about running or actually running from battle. In the beginning of this chapter, Henry actually runs to where that battle is. As Henry is running back towards the edge of the forest, he thinks of how the other soldiers and himself took the battle so seriously. They think it's deciding the entire war or that they will go down in the history books, when in reality this just isn't so. After Henry gets out of the forest, he finds an area of the battlefield belonging to five or six corpses. He feels as if he in invading their area, and quickly leaves, thinking one will get up and yell at him to leave. Henry continues walking, and ends up in the hospital type area where they take all the injured. It is here where he meets that tattered soldier. They talk for awhile(mostly the tattered soldier is doing the talking) until he asks Henry where he is injured at. Henry, obviously not being injured, turns and walks away.

Question:

• How big was the battle? There seems to be many injured and dead, but Henry seems to think the battle wasn't big enough to be mentioned.