CHAPTER TEN.

When Henry "is stabbed and his tongue lay dead" does it mean that he has a great deal of pain dealing with Jim's death, but he can't talk about it/can't form words? Henry and the tattered soldier decide they can't do anything for Jim, and just leave him. That doesn't make sense to me, because Henry said he would take care of him and said something about taking him to the road, but instead he just left him. The tattered soldier talks about how someone had to tell him he was shot, how would you not know if you got shot in the head? The tattered soldier seems to care for Henry and is concerned that his wound might be worse than Henry feels, so he asks him where it is. Henry of course doesn't have one, so he gets quite mad at tells him to leave him alone. Henry walks away as the tattered soldier begins to stutter and refer to Henry as his neighbor, Tom. Beings Jim did the same thing before he died, I think that the tattered soldier probably died too.

Question:

• Henry knows how Jim acted before he died, and now the tattered soldier was acting the same way. He said that now he wished he was dead. Why wouldn't he help the tattered soldier and actually want him dead?