CHAPTER ONE.

Chapter one begins during dusk on a hill. Everybody is awakening and the area is full of excitement with talk of going into battle soon. Jim goes to wash his shirt and comes back with the news that they are to go into battle the very next day. The soldiers had been sitting idle for a very long time not doing anything, so getting this news made everybody anxious. One man did not believe Jim, however, and called him out on it. The two men began to fight. Henry was nervous about going into battle the next day, so he goes into his tent to think and reflect on his life before he enlisted in the army and what his mother said to him the day he left. Henry was becoming very worried about the next day, thinking that he may possibly run from battle. Jim and the man he got into an argument with before come into the tent that Henry is in, still fighting. Jim comfronts Henry and makes him feel better about battle the next day.



Question:

• Why is Henry just now questiong his curage when he knew from day one that he would have to go into battle?