Monday, March 29, 2010

Chapters 21-24

Chapter 21

The battle is now over and Henry and all the members of regiment 304 are done fighting. Henry and the rest of them get critizied and it makes Henry really mad. But one of the men tells Henry and Wilson that they have done a great job, and that they heard of the colonels telling their luetinent that Henry and Wilson were definetly the two best fighters of the regiment and they are really brave. It makes Henry and Wilson feel really good.

Henry is outraged that he was critizied in the battle and I don't blame him. I thought he showed great courage by running up and grabbing the flag because it is very dangerous to do that.

Why would the soilders critizise them?


Chapter 22

Henry and Wilson have to wait around for another battle again. They are growing tired of the battles but the compliments that they have got have just made them want to go out and prove themselves again. Henry doesn't mind as much if he dies because having the men who called regiment 304 mule divers would feel pretty dumb if he saw his dead body. The next battle starts again and Henry sees men all around him dying and he feels as if they are losing numbers.

Henry and Wilson have to go through another battle. That would get really old if you had to fight in a battle every day and just keep risking your life. I think Henry has come a long way and he is much braver.

Will they win the battle?

Chapter 23

The battle was a great success. The enemies try to retreat but they are overtaken by Henry's crew. Henry seizes a perfect opportunity when he sees that the opponents flag bearer has been wounded and there aren't many people around him, and he goes for it, but Wilson beats him to it. But together they captured 4 prisoners and took the enemy flag.

Wilson and Henry become heroes once again, they show how couragous they are and they show there bravery by going for the flag. They won the battle and captured 4 prisoners.

Is that the last battle?

Chapter 24

Soon after the battle is over Henry and his troops are ordered to march down to the river again. Henry starts to have second thoughts about everything much like he did in the first battle and he doesn't really know what to do. He eventually talks himself out of being a coward again, and he starts to think about the battle that is going to await him.

Henry has to prepare himself for the battle and for one of the first times they aren't being attacked and they are going to meet the opponents head on. Henry has second thoughts about the whole situation but makes himself realize what is important.

Why does Henry all of the sudden have second thoughts about the battle?

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Chapter 16-20

Chapter 16

The men are in the trenches when they are told that they may be fighting soon. They sit in the trenches for a while and then they are told that the enemy is getting near. So they go into the forrest and Henry complains the whole way saying that whoever is there leader has no idea what he was doing, but one of the other soilders gets after him about it so he decides to be quiet. They get positioned and they wait for the enemy.

Henry is getting another chance to prove to himself that he has pride and he can fight through a battle and not run. They are getting very close to it and he is saying that the leader doesn't know what he's talking about because Henry is probably nervous which i definetly do not blame him.

Why does Henry think that the Leader doesn't know what he is talking about?

Chapter 17

After waiting for a while the battle starts. Henry does everything he is supposed to do. He just keeps reloading and shooting. In all the smoke he can't really see anything so he just keeps shooting randomly. Then he hears one of his comrades laughing at him and he realizes that the battle is over. All his comrades are surprised and they tell him what a great soilder he is. One of the men tells him that if all of them were like that they would be much better off.

Henry earns the respect of all of his comrades because he actually faught and faught hard in that battle. He showed that there wasn't any quit and him and he just kept fighting. I think that he probably thinks a lot more highly of himself now because he proved to himself that he wasn't a liar and he didn't have to lie to his comrades about anything because they saw it.

How many more battles will there be?

Chapter 18

Henry and the rest of the troops relax and enjoy there last victory for a while and then Wilson and Henry decide to go find some water somewhere. They go looking for a stream but they overhear some soilders talking. Someone asks which group of soilders can be spared and someone says Regiment 304 which is Henry's group. They will most likely used as a decoy and most of them will probably be killed.

Henry's group is the one that is going to be chosen to be used as a decoy for a strategy. I would be pretty upset if I was Henry because out of all the groups that is the one that got chosen. The chances that they are going to die is pretty good.

How many groups are there?

Chapter 19

Henry and Wilson are very upset that out of all the groups, they are the one that was chosen. As they head back to there camp they share the news with their comrades that they are going to charge, but they don't say anything about being the group chosen. They start to charge and Wilson and Henry watch a lot of their men get shot right in front of them, they watched the flag carrier die, and they pick it up and keep going.

I would be really scared if I was Henry and Wilson. They are basically just walking into death because they are in the front of the line with the flag and the person carrying the flag is always taken out. Henry is showing his honor though and he isn't running away.

How many people are charging?

Chapter 20

Henry and Wilson pick up the flag and they start running towards the forrest because one of the generals yelled at all of them too. People are just dropping dead everywhere and neither one of the groups are pulling back. Henry encourages his comrades to keep fighting because if they died they were all going to die proud and they were all going to put up a good fight. They put up a good fight and forced the enemy soilders to pull back and run away.

Henry not only shows honor and bravery, but he shows that he is a good leader. The way that the troops talked about their group saying they weren't worth it fired him up and he wanted to go out and show everyone what they could do.

Did just regiment 304 fight?

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

chapters 7-15

Chapter 7

Now that the battle is over, Henry is really worried about what the other people will say about him. He sits in the forest thinking about it, while he hears a battle going on around him. He gets mad at himself because he ran away from battle, and he didn't show that he had any pride. He throws a pine cone at a squirrel in his frusteration. He decides to start moving and he just about goes through a swamp where he sees an animal. He keeps going and he sees a chapel, so he goes inside. When he gets in the chapel he sees a dead man that terrifies him. He thinks that the man is going to jump up and get him and yell at him.

I think that Henry should be afraid of what the other men will say about him. He will probably get called a coward. It is a tough decision on whether or not he wants to go back right away. I don't see why he was so scared of the dead guy, because it seemed to scare him.

Why does Henry not go back right away and why does he go into the chapel?

Chapter 8

Henry leaves the chapel and he starts going through the forrest again. As he is walking through he hears yells of a battle won. He moves closer to get a better look. He sees a bunch of men that are very wounded. One of the men tries to talk to him and Henry tries to aviod him, but the man just keeps talking about the battle. Henry feels kind of guilty. The man asks him which part of his body has been hurt, and Henry runs away in guilt.

I think Henry should feel kind of guilty about not fighting in the battle. He sees the honor that those men have that are bloody and broken. He wishes that he was a part of that and he feels terrible that he ran away.

Why didn't Henry just stay away from the guys that had just gone through the war.


Chapter 9

Henry starts walking around and he sees more and more bloody soilders that had just got done with battle. Eventually he sees Jim, the tall man that was one of his friends from earlier. Jim asks him where he h\as been, and Henry aviods the subject. Henry told Jim that he would take care of him, but Jim is acting differently because he has been shot, and he tries to run away from Henry. When he is running away he just falls on the ground and die. Henry feels terrible.

Jim was one of Henry's closest friends so i feel pretty bad for him. Jim had helped him a lot when Henry first started. Henry won't really have anyone to talk to now because Jim was the only one that he had only really talked to.

Was Jim one of Henry's only friends?

Chapter 10.

Back at their base, Henry is with one of the wounded men that he first saw when he was walking out of the forrest, the one that kept asking him questions. The man tells Henry that he isn't feeling good. Henry worries that he is going to have to see another person die for the 2nd time that day. The man tells him that he feels fine though because he has children that need him at home. Henry can't take it anymore and he goes to leave, but the man starts screaming at him. Henry knows that if he leaves him he will probably die, but he leaves anyways.

Henry is in a tough situation because if he stays, he might have to watch the man die, which will be the 2nd time that day. But if he leaves, then the man is for sure going to die. Henry decides to leave.

What is wrong with the man why does he think Henry is someone he's not?

Chapter 11

Another battle begins and Henry has to decide whether or not he wants to be a coward or not. He almost decides to go into battle, but it would be foolish. He is sore, he hasn't had any food or drink for a long time, and he doesn't have a rifile or any type of weapon so it would be just foolish to try. He backs out and hides hoping that he can still see whats going on. While he is watching he begins to think of some kind of excuse to tell his comrades of why he isn't wounded or why he wasn't fighting. He can't think of anything and he hopes that he won't be called a coward.

There is no way to blame Henry for not going into battle this time. He actually has a legit excuse, he doesn't even have a rifile or any type of weapon. If i were him i probably would lie to my comrades and make up some kind of excuse for why i didn't fight because i doubt that they will just believe that he didn't have a weapon.

What is Henry going to say to his comrades?

Chapter 12

Henry has no idea where he is at and he finds himself in the middle of a battle again. He has no idea where his base is at and which soilders are on his side. He asks one of his comrades where he should be and his comrade gets really mad at him and freaks out on him because Henry won't leave him alone. Henry keeps asking people and finally one of them tells him where he should be at, and Henry goes to the campfire of where he should be at.

I think that it would really be stressful to be in the middle of a battle and have no idea what is going on. Henry really didn't know and he is lucky that one of the men helped him out or he could have easily been killed.

Why can't Henry tell who is who?

Chapter 13

Henry goes back to his camp, not sure what his comrades are going to think of him when they see him. Most of them are sleeping, but a couple are awake. One of the men asks Henry where he has been and what he has been doing and Henry tells him that he got shot in the head. The corporal looks at Henry's head and decides that he got hit on the top of the head with a shotgun shell, and tells one of the men to tend to Henry. Wilson, one of the few men that Henry has talked to, gives him coffee and a blanket before he can go to sleep and Henry feels relived.

Henry got lucky that the corporal thought that he got shot on top of the head, that was Henry's excuse. Henry is now back with all of his comrades at the camp and now he will be supplied with a gun and probably have to fight.

How did the corporal actually believe Henry got shot in the head?

Chapter 14

Henry finally gets to sleep with all of his comrades peacefully. But when he wakes up he thinks that all the bodies next to him are dead and he starts screaming. Wilson asks him if he is ok and looks at his head. They all woke up and started talking about all the battles and Henry breaks the news to everyone that Jim is dead. They talked about how about half of the men had disapeared, but some of them came back because like Henry, they were all throughout the woods.

Henry and all his comrades talk throughtout the night of all the things that have happened and they learn that Jim is dead and that a lot of people have died. I think that Henry is lucky now that he is part of the group again and they don't know that he actually just fled.

Is there going to be a lot more battles?

Chapter 15

All of the soilders are sitting at there base while they wait for another battle. Henry remembers from a while ago when Wilson gave him a letter to give to his family when he dies. He wanted to remind Wilson but he decides not to. They talked for a while and then Wilson asked him for the letter back, so Henry gave it back to him.

Wilson asks for his letter back from Henry that he gave to him before, because he thought that he would be dead by now, he feels embarassed about it.

Why did Wilson want it back?

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jordan Curren
English 11
Mrs. Lebo




Chapter 1

There is a guy named Henry that has dreamed of being in the army for many years now. He has dreamed of going into battle and fighting. His mom tells him many reasons why he shouldn't go, but he decides that he is going to go anyways. When his mom finds out, she decides that it is fine and that she will respect his plan, even though she is very scared for him and she cries about it. Henry rooms with the tall soilder named Jim, that tells him that his chance will come for him to go into battle, and all the guys tell him stories. All the stories get Henry really excited about going to battle, and he is constantly thinking about it and he is so excited that he shakes. He really tries to get along with all the guys so that they can get to know him.

I think that Henry's mom has every right to be scared about him going to fight, but it is good that she respects his decision and lets him do what he wants. I don't see why Henry is so excited about going to war because there is always a chance that he could be killed.

Why is Henry so excited about going to war?

Chapter 2

As much as Henry wants to go fight, he starts to wish that he was back home again. He says that he misses taking trips from his house out to the barn, and then going out into the fields for a while, and then coming back. Henry asks one of the comrades if he had ever thought about running away from battle. They get into an argument because Henry says that a lot of good men have talked about what they will do in battle but they will actually run away before they can do it. The guy just gets mad and walks away.

I think since Henry is so young that he probably shouldn't be challenging a veteran soilder on his loyalty. I don't blame Henry for wanting to go back home because I wouldn't really want to be sitting there waiting to fight either.

Why does Henry not doubt that the guy will run away before battle?

Chapter 3

Henry starts to become nervous as they finally start to leave where they were staying at. They go through a forest, and they set camp at another place. Henry goes to bed thinking that everything is fine for now. But then in the morning he wakes up to the tall soilder shaking him. They have to move because they can hear gunfire. They get close to battle and the man that said he would do his part and never run away from battle tells Henry that he thinks he is going to die.

I would be very nervous if i was one of the soilders, knowing that death may be soon. I don't blame the soilder for thinking he is going to die, because he was probably nervous. It would be terrible to be in there position.

Why does the man tell Henry that he is going to die?

Chapter 4

The soilders draw very close to battle and they know that it is going to happen. Henry is doubting himself more than ever and he thinks that he is more likely to run from battle than actually fight bravely. The enemy starts to come closer to them and they have to get there guns ready to prepare for battle.

I don't blame Henry for wanting to run because I'm pretty sure that i would want to do the same thing. After all the years of dreaming about it, it is different than he thought it would actually be.

What does Henry realize about war?

Chapter 5

Finally the war begins to start. Henry and the troops are attacked by the enemy. Henry is still very nervous. But he does what he is told and he just keeps shooting and reloading. The enemy soilders are so outnumbered that they decide to go back to there base and fight another time. Some of the fellow troops die but fortunatly Henry makes it through the battle.

I think that Henry did a good job and didn't run away from battle. He did what he was supposed to do and they won that part of the battle, but they still haven't won the war.

Who won the battle?

Chapter 6

Henry and all his comrads think that the battle is over already so they decided to party, but then someone said that the enemy was coming back for more. Everybody jumps and most of them panic. Unlike the first time, Henry decideds that he would rather run away than be a hero. So he takes off sprinting into the forrest. He keeps running, scared that someone is going to get him. Then after running for a while he hears someone yell that they are gone again.

Henry runs away and so do a lot of his comrades. He probably won't feel to highly about himself for a while and he will doubt himself. I would probably do the same thing as him and just run away.

How many of the troops panic and run away?