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?