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?