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3,139 | 154_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Walker, Lapham's bookkeeper, senses financial problems and mentions the situation to Tom Corey before Rogers appears. Lapham tells Rogers he has discovered that the mills Rogers put up for collateral are almost worthless because of the strong hold the G.L.&P. has on the railroad going to them. "I'm going to let the mil... | [
"LAPHAM was gone a fortnight. He was in a sullen humour when he came\nback, and kept himself shut close within his own den at the office the\nfirst day. He entered it in the morning without a word to his clerks\nas he passed through the outer room, and he made no sign throughout the\nforenoon, except to strike sa... |
3,140 | 154_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Lapham tells Penelope of her father's problems, and the girl immediately regains her composure and begins to think about something besides her problems with Tom Corey and Irene. She writes Tom a note and tells him not to visit her until she asks him. Silas enjoys a period of respite, as the English parties do not ... | [
"THE morning postman brought Mrs. Lapham a letter from Irene, which was\nchiefly significant because it made no reference whatever to the writer\nor her state of mind. It gave the news of her uncle's family; it told\nof their kindness to her; her cousin Will was going to take her and his\nsisters ice-boating on th... |
3,141 | 154_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lapham has nearly decided that he cannot sell the mills at an unfair price even if the English do make an offer. He stops work on the house and shuts down the paint works that have been operating twenty-four hours a day since he began. Heavy competition from an underselling West Virginia paint company and an overstocke... | [
"SINCE New Year's there had scarcely been a mild day, and the streets\nwere full of snow, growing foul under the city feet and hoofs, and\nrenewing its purity from the skies with repeated falls, which in turn\nlost their whiteness, beaten down, and beaten black and hard into a\nsolid bed like iron. The sleighing w... |
3,142 | 154_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom Corey investigates the seriousness of Lapham's financial problems and is told that, in addition to all other known problems, Lapham is competing with a company in West Virginia that can undersell him on a nearly stagnate market. While Corey is pondering the problem, he receives a thank you note from Penelope in gra... | [
"THAT evening James Bellingham came to see Corey after dinner, and went\nto find him in his own room.",
"\"I've come at the instance of Colonel Lapham,\" said the uncle. \"He was\nat my office to-day, and I had a long talk with him. Did you know that\nhe was in difficulties?\"",
"\"I fancied that he was in so... |
3,143 | 154_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Silas makes a last-ditch attempt to unite with the West Virginia paint company. They are friendly and willing to join with Silas if he can back them with enough capital to develop their enterprise. Silas cannot raise enough money, however, until Rogers presents the English agents, who offer Silas a sufficient sum for t... | [
"LAPHAM awoke confused, and in a kind of remoteness from the loss of the\nnight before, through which it loomed mistily. But before he lifted\nhis head from the pillow, it gathered substance and weight against\nwhich it needed all his will to bear up and live. In that moment he\nwished that he had not wakened, th... |
3,144 | 154_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lapham, on Bellingham's advice, goes to New York to ask the West Virginians for more time to raise the money. Mrs. Lapham, who feels remorse in not being able to help her husband make his decision in the English matter, attempts to visit him at his office for the first time in a year. She finds him gone and his typist ... | [
"LATER in the forenoon came the despatch from the West Virginians in New\nYork, saying their brother assented to their agreement; and it now\nremained for Lapham to fulfil his part of it. He was ludicrously far\nfrom able to do this; and unless he could get some extension of time\nfrom them, he must lose this chan... |
3,145 | 154_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Silas returns from a conference with a man who wanted to unknowingly invest in the Lapham paint works; his money would have enabled Silas to close with the West Virginians. Silas cannot let him enter into the deal unaware and tells him the condition of his business. The offer is withdrawn, and Silas must put himself in... | [
"IRENE did not leave her mother in any illusion concerning her cousin\nWill and herself. She said they had all been as nice to her as they\ncould be, and when Mrs. Lapham hinted at what had been in her\nthoughts,--or her hopes, rather,--Irene severely snubbed the notion.\nShe said that he was as good as engaged to... |
3,146 | 2775_part_1,_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part I, Section I Ford Madox Ford opens his novel with Dowell's simple statement that "this is the saddest story I have ever heard." John Dowell proceeds to narrate the history of the nine-year acquaintance between himself and his wife, Florence, and an English couple, the Ashburnhams. The two couples are intimately as... | [
"THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the\nAshburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme\nintimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet\nas close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain\nand Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was po... |
3,147 | 2775_part_1,_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part I, Section III Dowell describes the circumstances at Nauheim under which he and Florence met the Ashburnhams. It was August, 1904, and Florence had been taking spa baths for a month. At Nauheim, Dowell feels bored and useless; there is nothing whatever to entertain him so he falls into the habit of counting his st... | [
"IT was a very hot summer, in August, 1904; and Florence had already been\ntaking the baths for a month. I don't know how it feels to be a patient\nat one of those places. I never was a patient anywhere. I daresay the\npatients get a home feeling and some sort of anchorage in the spot. They\nseem to like the bath a... |
3,148 | 2775_part_1,_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part I, Section V Dowell says that his entire life's mission was to keep a heart patient alive. He constantly feared for Florence's safety and ease of travel. Dowell explains that in Florence he had both a wife and an unattained mistress; their marriage had never been consummated. He feels similar to Leonora, because h... | [
"THOSE words gave me the greatest relief that I have ever had in my\nlife. They told me, I think, almost more than I have ever gathered at\nany one moment--about myself. I don't think that before that day I had\never wanted anything very much except Florence. I have, of course, had\nappetites, impatiences... Why, s... |
3,149 | 2775_part_2,_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part II, Section I Dowell begins Part II by describing the importance of August 4 in Florence's life. August 4 is the date of her birth, the beginning of her trip around the world, her first love affair, her marriage, her first encounter with the Ashburnhams, and her death. When discussing his wedding, Dowell flashes b... | [
"THE death of Mrs Maidan occurred on the 4th of August, 1904. And then nothing happened until the 4th of August, 1913. There is the curious coincidence of dates, but I do not know whether that is one of those sinister, as if half jocular and altogether merciless proceedings on the part of a cruel Providence that we... |
3,150 | 2775_part_3,_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part III, Section I Dowell considers marrying Nancy, "the Girl." Until Florence was dead, he never before thought about it, but on the night Florence dies, Leonora allows him the privilege of considering it. Months later, after Edward's death, Leonora tells Dowell all she knows. She reveals the deception that his wife ... | [
"THE odd thing is that what sticks out in my recollection of the rest of\nthat evening was Leonora's saying:",
"\"Of course you might marry her,\" and, when I asked whom, she answered:",
"\"The girl.\"",
"Now that is to me a very amazing thing--amazing for the light of\npossibilities that it casts into the hu... |
3,151 | 2775_part_3,_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part III, Section IV Dowell explains Edward's background, desires, and regrets. Edward had all the virtues and the manners that are associated with the best kind of English people. His life had the outline of a "hard-working, sentimental and efficient professional man." His passions, Dowell explains, took up only a ver... | [
"IT is very difficult to give an all-round impression of a man. I wonder\nhow far I have succeeded with Edward Ashburnham. I dare say I haven't\nsucceeded at all. It is ever very difficult to see how such things\nmatter. Was it the important point about poor Edward that he was very\nwell built, carried himself well... |
3,152 | 2775_part_4,_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part IV, Section I Dowell admits that he has told this story in a very rambling way, going back and forward as he remembers important details. He justifies such a narration by claiming that it is more real; he says that it is the way a person telling a story would transmit it. As he reflects upon the story in its entir... | [
"I HAVE, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it\nmay be difficult for anyone to find their path through what may be a\nsort of maze. I cannot help it. I have stuck to my idea of being in a\ncountry cottage with a silent listener, hearing between the gusts of the\nwind and amidst the noises of... |
3,153 | 2775_part_4,_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part IV, Section III Until this point, Nancy had been brought up in a very sheltered, religious environment. She knew that some people committed adultery, but she assumed they were poor people whom she did not know. One morning, about a month before the evening when Leonora confessed in Nancy's room, Nancy decided to r... | [
"NANCY had, in fact, been thinking ever since Leonora had made that\ncomment over the giving of the horse to young Selmes. She had been\nthinking and thinking, because she had had to sit for many days silent\nbeside her aunt's bed. (She had always thought of Leonora as her aunt.)\nAnd she had had to sit thinking du... |
3,154 | 2775_part_4,_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part IV, Section V Dowell claims that this is the saddest part of the story. He sees the terrible position that all three people are in. If Nancy does not belong to Edward, he will literally die. Dowell writes this section eighteen months after he has returned to Branshaw to care for Nancy. He records the events that h... | [
"IT is this part of the story that makes me saddest of all. For I ask\nmyself unceasingly, my mind going round and round in a weary, baffled\nspace of pain--what should these people have done? What, in the name of\nGod, should they have done?",
"The end was perfectly plain to each of them--it was perfectly manife... |
3,155 | 463_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As The Red Badge of Courage opens, we do not know precisely where we are or whom we are watching. As the fog clears gradually, we see a part of the Union army upon a riverbank. Rumors are flying among the troops about their own movement. One tall soldier, named Jim but referred to mainly by his height, tells his comrad... | [
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs\nrevealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape\nchanged from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble\nwith eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the\nroads, which were growing from long tr... |
3,156 | 463_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Upon rising the next day, the soldiers discover that the rumor is not true and they are not moving out, as Jim Conklin, the tall soldier, had said. For Henry Fleming, this is not a relief. His dilemma of whether or not he will run in battle is still present. Without a battle to test it, he has no idea if he will be cou... | [
"The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been\nthe fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the\nlatter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and\nthere was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the\nrumor. The tall one fought wit... |
3,157 | 463_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The regiment marches for another two days, picking up their pace on the last day. The men become tired, hot, and cranky. They leave some of their supplies behind, trying to lighten their load. They move quickly like veterans, but they still do not have the look of veterans, as their uniforms are too bright and new. One... | [
"WHEN another night came the columns, changed to purple streaks, filed\nacross two pontoon bridges. A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of\nthe river. Its rays, shining upon the moving masses of troops, brought\nforth here and there sudden gleams of silver or gold. Upon the other\nshore a dark and mysterious r... |
3,158 | 463_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new regiment is now halted just inside a grove of trees, facing out into a field covered in smoke. They talk about rumors and reports from battles, who has lost what and moved where. As always, there is a disagreement about what has actually happened, this time to a Union battery. Then the noise and altercation in ... | [
"The brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove. The men crouched\namong the trees and pointed their restless guns out at the fields. They\ntried to look beyond the smoke.",
"Out of this haze they could see running men. Some shouted information\nand gestured as they hurried.",
"The men of the new regiment wat... |
3,159 | 463_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The waiting makes Henry think of his home and the images he once despised take on a warm glow of nostalgia. Suddenly, someone cries, "Here they come. Beyond the smoke, a brown swarm of men begins running down the hill. A general comes up on his horse, yelling to a colonel that the men have to hold them back. Henry sees... | [
"There were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village street\nat home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.\nHe remembered how he had stood, a small, thrillful boy, prepared to\nfollow the dingy lady upon the white horse, or the band in its faded\nchariot. He saw the yellow ro... |
3,160 | 463_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Henry becomes more and more aware, he is relieved. The trial has been passed and the difficulties of war have been vanquished. He feels good about himself. He and the other men exchange pleasantries about the weather and shake hands. But this good feeling does not last for long - the enemy attacks again. Masses of t... | [
"The youth awakened slowly. He came gradually back to a position from\nwhich he could regard himself. For moments he had been scrutinizing\nhis person in a dazed way as if he had never before seen himself. Then\nhe picked up his cap from the ground. He wriggled in his jacket to\nmake a more comfortable fit, and... |
3,161 | 463_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry recoils in horror upon hearing that his regiment is victorious. He looks in the direction of the battle and sees a yellow fog along the treetops. He feels wronged. He fled, he tells himself, because annihilation was approaching. As a little piece of the army, he did a good job in saving himself. He thinks his act... | [
"The youth cringed as if discovered in a crime. By heavens, they had won\nafter all! The imbecile line had remained and become victors. He could\nhear cheering.",
"He lifted himself upon his toes and looked in the direction of the\nfight. A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops. From beneath it\ncame the cl... |
3,162 | 463_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry continues on through the forest. He hears loud crashes and roars through the darkening sky. It seems as if the world is being rent asunder. Henry's mind is going in all directions at once. He feels that the two armies are going at each other in a panther-like fashion. He then runs, ironically, in the direction of... | [
"The trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until\nslanted bronze rays struck the forest. There was a lull in the noises\nof insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a\ndevotional pause. There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the\ntrees.",
"Then, upon this stillne... |
3,163 | 463_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry falls back in the procession of wounded men in order to get away from the tattered soldier. Everyone around him is wounded and bleeding. He perceives these men to be happy, and he wishes now that he too had a red badge of courage. One soldier by his side looks like a specter. He moves stiffly, as if looking for h... | [
"The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was\nnot in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.",
"But he was amid wounds. The mob of men was bleeding. Because of the\ntattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed.\nHe was continually casting sidelong g... |
3,164 | 463_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry is full of grief, but has been rendered speechless. The tattered man tells him to not worry so much about the dead; they should look out "for number one. As he says this, he too looks as if he is about to fall over. Henry is very much afraid that this man will be dead soon. The soldier insists however that he wil... | [
"The tattered man stood musing.",
"\"Well, he was reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he,\" said he finally\nin a little awestruck voice. \"A reg'lar jim-dandy.\" He thoughtfully\npoked one of the docile hands with his foot. \"I wonner where he got\n'is stren'th from? I never seen a man do like that before. ... |
3,165 | 463_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry continues across the field. He rounds a hill and encounters a running mass of wagons, horses, and men. He is momentarily relieved. Everyone is retreating; perhaps his own retreat is not so bad after all. A column of troops comes up in the road, heading in the opposite direction. They push themselves through the f... | [
"He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder.\nGreat brown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him.\nThe noise, too, was approaching. The woods filtered men and the fields\nbecame dotted.",
"As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying\nmass... |
3,166 | 463_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The column of heroic troops marches into the forest and, after a brief moment, come running out again. Henry is thunderstruck; these steel-hearted men are already defeated. The red animal of war will have its fill. He tries to call out a rallying speech, but can only manage blubbering. The fleeing men run around him, n... | [
"The column that had butted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway was\nbarely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come\nsweeping out of the woods and down through the fields. He knew at once\nthat the steel fibers had been washed from their hearts. They were\nbursting from their coats and th... |
3,167 | 463_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the youth approaches the fires of his regiment, he fears the men will welcome him with jibes and insults. In his tired state, he cannot invent a story to explain his actions. Too tired to run again, he must brave their insults in hope of rest. Suddenly, a guard comes running at him with a rifle, yelling for Henry to... | [
"The youth went slowly toward the fire indicated by his departed friend.\nAs he reeled, he bethought him of the welcome his comrades would give\nhim. He had a conviction that he would soon feel in his sore heart the\nbarbed missiles of ridicule. He had no strength to invent a tale; he\nwould be a soft target.",
... |
3,168 | 463_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the youth awakes, a gray mist is coming in over the fields, bending the first rays of sunlight. Fighting can be heard in the distance. Henry and the rest of the men try to get the last few moments of sleep. The light makes them look like corpses. The youth, in this forest, thinks that he is in a house of the dead. H... | [
"When the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a\nthousand years, and he felt sure that he opened his eyes upon an\nunexpected world. Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first\nefforts of the sun rays. An impending splendor could be seen in the\neastern sky. An icy dew had chilled his ... |
3,169 | 463_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The regiment stands at order, waiting for the command to march. The youth suddenly remembers the packet of letters that Wilson gave to him the day before for safekeeping. He calls to Wilson. However, when the latter turns to him, Henry merely says, "Oh, nothing. He realizes he did not want his friend to inquire in retu... | [
"The regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane, waiting\nfor the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little\npacket enwrapped in a faded yellow envelope which the loud young\nsoldier with lugubrious words had intrusted to him. It made him start.\nHe uttered an exclamation and t... |
3,170 | 463_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The fog-filled air is full of the noise from muskets and cannons. A new day of battle begins. The regiment is to relieve men in trenches, sitting with their backs to them and listening to the occasional pop of a skirmisher's rifle. Henry peers over at the trees up and down the trench line. Cannons on the right begin to... | [
"A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had\nentered the dispute. In the fog-filled air their voices made a\nthudding sound. The reverberations were continued. This part of the\nworld led a strange, battleful existence.",
"The youth's regiment was marched to relieve a command that ... |
3,171 | 463_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The youth fumes at the approaching enemy. He feels that he deserves a bit of rest and reflection from the trials and tribulations of the day before. The other men do not seem to need this, though, and their energy seems endless. He hates them today, as opposed to the day before, when he fumed against the war gods. Now ... | [
"This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless\nhunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his\nfoot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that\nwas approaching like a phantom flood. There was a maddening quality in\nthis seeming resolution of the foe... |
3,172 | 463_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There is a brief rest after the battle, but the noises of cannons and guns soon resound in the forest again. One soldier has been shot through the body. The men rush to his attention. He lies twisting and thrashing about in the grass, yelling curses at the men standing there. Wilson, the friend, uses this occasion to g... | [
"The ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause the\nstruggle in the forest became magnified until the trees seemed to\nquiver from the firing and the ground to shake from the rushing of the\nmen. The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable\nrow. It seemed difficult to liv... |
3,173 | 463_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men stand in formation. With a gasp that is intended to be a cheer, the regiment starts running at the enemy troops. Henry fixes on a distant clump of trees and runs toward it as if toward a goal. His face is drawn tight, and his features look disheveled and crazed. Yellow flames leap out of the forest at the advan... | [
"The youth stared at the land in front of him. Its foliages now seemed\nto veil powers and horrors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders\nthat started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw\nan officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving\nhis hat. Suddenly he felt a s... |
3,174 | 463_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men begin to slowly retreat. The lieutenant bellows at them to turn around. Another officer with a red beard yells at the soldiers to shoot into the enemy. Meanwhile, Wilson and Henry have a minor scuffle over who should carry the flag, both wanting to do so out of deference for the other's safety and their own pri... | [
"When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the\nregiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly\nback. The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had\npresently expended their forces. They slowly retreated, with their\nfaces still toward the spluttering wo... |
3,175 | 463_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | No firing threatens the regiment as they return to their blue lines. The men are nervous as they go, suspecting that they may be fired on at anytime. When they get back to their lines, they are peppered with sarcastic questions, asking where they have been and why they are coming back. The men of the regiment make no r... | [
"Presently they knew that no firing threatened them. All ways seemed\nonce more opened to them. The dusty blue lines of their friends were\ndisclosed a short distance away. In the distance there were many\ncolossal noises, but in all this part of the field there was a sudden\nstillness.",
"They perceived that ... |
3,176 | 463_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the next phase of the battle begins, Henry is still in command of the flag. He stands erect and tranquil, his vision unaffected by the smoke from the rifles. In the distance, two regiments of one army fight two regiments of the other. They are engrossed in their own fights, not noticing the rest of the war around th... | [
"When the woods again began to pour forth the dark-hued masses of the\nenemy the youth felt serene self-confidence. He smiled briefly when he\nsaw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were\nthrown in giant handfuls over them. He stood, erect and tranquil,\nwatching the attack begin against a ... |
3,177 | 463_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The officers from behind the line run up to the regiment, yelling that they must charge. Upon hearing this, the youth makes some rough calculations of the distance between them and the enemy. He suspects that they will have to be coaxed into charging, but instead the men quickly fix their bayonets and leap forward, run... | [
"The colonel came running along back of the line. There were other\nofficers following him. \"We must charge'm!\" they shouted. \"We must\ncharge'm!\" they cried with resentful voices, as if anticipating a\nrebellion against this plan by the men.",
"The youth, upon hearing the shouts, began to study the distanc... |
3,178 | 463_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The cacophony of battle grows intermittent and weak. The youth and his friend look up, almost surprised at the sudden lack of noise. Henry even asks out loud what will happen next. Eventually the regiment receives order to retrace its steps. The men get up slowly, stiff and groaning. They retrace the field they had run... | [
"The roarings that had stretched in a long line of sound across the face\nof the forest began to grow intermittent and weaker. The stentorian\nspeeches of the artillery continued in some distant encounter, but the\ncrashes of the musketry had almost ceased. The youth and his friend of\na sudden looked up, feeling... |
3,155 | 463_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet young Henry Fleming and the group of Union soldiers that he's hanging out with circa the Civil War. Jim Conklin, a.k.a. "the Tall Soldier," announces that he overheard their superiors discussing the regiment moving to battle soon. The men argue over whether or not this is true; this regiment hasn't been to batt... | [
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs\nrevealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape\nchanged from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble\nwith eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the\nroads, which were growing from long tr... |
3,156 | 463_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As it turns out, the regiment doesn't head for battle - not yet, anyway. This gives Henry days to sweat it out and wonder if he's really a chicken. His moods swing wildly, as they will continue to do for the rest of the novel. Henry feels alone. He thinks that all the other guys in his regiment are either totally brave... | [
"The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been\nthe fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the\nlatter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and\nthere was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the\nrumor. The tall one fought wit... |
3,157 | 463_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men are ordered to get up and march at lightning speed, or maybe the speed of thunder . Soon they are running and dropping gear as they go. Henry feels trapped, as if he is caught up in a huge machine. The men run. They hear bullets and explosions off in the distance. Then they see their first dead man. Henry tries... | [
"WHEN another night came the columns, changed to purple streaks, filed\nacross two pontoon bridges. A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of\nthe river. Its rays, shining upon the moving masses of troops, brought\nforth here and there sudden gleams of silver or gold. Upon the other\nshore a dark and mysterious r... |
3,158 | 463_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Well, not a whole lot happens in the chapter. Bullets mainly start to whiz by. Henry's brigade watches the brigade in front of them battling it out. During the Civil War, the fighting produced so much smoke that it was hard to tell what was happening even a few yards in front of you, so the guys spend a lot of time arg... | [
"The brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove. The men crouched\namong the trees and pointed their restless guns out at the fields. They\ntried to look beyond the smoke.",
"Out of this haze they could see running men. Some shouted information\nand gestured as they hurried.",
"The men of the new regiment wat... |
3,159 | 463_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Suddenly someone yells, "Here they come!" And sure enough, the Confederates rush at Henry's group of soldiers. Henry surprises himself by totally forgetting his own fear. He shoots and reloads like a madman. He feels as if he is a part of something large and multi-bodied . There are many excellent descriptions of the i... | [
"There were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village street\nat home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.\nHe remembered how he had stood, a small, thrillful boy, prepared to\nfollow the dingy lady upon the white horse, or the band in its faded\nchariot. He saw the yellow ro... |
3,160 | 463_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry wakes up with a double dose of dopamine/serotonin flowing through his system. It's like someone slipped him some super-Prozac while he was sleeping. He smiles as he remembers what a major fighting machine he is. He nods as he considers his own mad skills. His pride and good will knows no bounds. Ah, the glorious ... | [
"The youth awakened slowly. He came gradually back to a position from\nwhich he could regard himself. For moments he had been scrutinizing\nhis person in a dazed way as if he had never before seen himself. Then\nhe picked up his cap from the ground. He wriggled in his jacket to\nmake a more comfortable fit, and... |
3,161 | 463_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From his hiding spot, Henry hears cheering. The Union soldiers have somehow held the line without him. Henry tells himself that he was the enlightened one, and that those who stayed and fought were fools. Henry throws a rock at a squirrel and watches it scamper away. "See," he thinks. "Even animals are smart enough to ... | [
"The youth cringed as if discovered in a crime. By heavens, they had won\nafter all! The imbecile line had remained and become victors. He could\nhear cheering.",
"He lifted himself upon his toes and looked in the direction of the\nfight. A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops. From beneath it\ncame the cl... |
3,162 | 463_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry starts heading back the way he came. The noise of the battle is incredible. He realizes that the battles before are nothing compared to this. There are dead men lying everywhere. Torn and bleeding men are limping and howling and falling to the ground. He sees a wounded man with a shoe-full of blood, hopping like ... | [
"The trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until\nslanted bronze rays struck the forest. There was a lull in the noises\nof insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a\ndevotional pause. There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the\ntrees.",
"Then, upon this stillne... |
3,163 | 463_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry walks along with the wounded regiment, wishing he had a wound too - a "red badge of courage" of his very own. Henry feels that his chickenness is written on his forehead... which would be quite interesting, if it were possible. Henry sees the worst thing he's seen yet. It's his old friend Jim Conklin and it is ap... | [
"The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was\nnot in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.",
"But he was amid wounds. The mob of men was bleeding. Because of the\ntattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed.\nHe was continually casting sidelong g... |
3,164 | 463_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Tattered Soldier," having witnessed Jim's wild death, tries to talk to Henry about it: "Well, he was a reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he?" Henry desires "to screech out his grief. He stabbed, but his tongue dead in the tomb of his mouth" Henry creeps away from Jim's corpse, which "remain laughing there in the... | [
"The tattered man stood musing.",
"\"Well, he was reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he,\" said he finally\nin a little awestruck voice. \"A reg'lar jim-dandy.\" He thoughtfully\npoked one of the docile hands with his foot. \"I wonner where he got\n'is stren'th from? I never seen a man do like that before. ... |
3,165 | 463_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Henry does nothing but toss and turn emotionally. Here we go, in order: Henry envies the brave men who are marching boldly into battle. Henry can feel himself rising to the occasion. He is filled with blood lust! Henry becomes paralyzed with fear! Henry moves forward to fight! Henry cannot move because... | [
"He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder.\nGreat brown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him.\nThe noise, too, was approaching. The woods filtered men and the fields\nbecame dotted.",
"As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying\nmass... |
3,166 | 463_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is a great chapter because something happens here that changes everything. Anyway, as Henry is standing there woolgathering, tons of soldiers start running in his direction. Henry wants to know what in the thunder is going on. He grabs one soldier and tries to get him to tell him. The soldier is all freaked out fr... | [
"The column that had butted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway was\nbarely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come\nsweeping out of the woods and down through the fields. He knew at once\nthat the steel fibers had been washed from their hearts. They were\nbursting from their coats and th... |
3,167 | 463_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry reels toward the fire and tents of his own regiment and is greeted warmly, especially when he tells everyone that he was SHOT IN THE HEAD. Wilson looks after Henry quite tenderly. He comments that Henry's injury looks somewhat odd for a bullet wound. Well, yes... Henry sleeps the sleep of the guilty and the lying... | [
"The youth went slowly toward the fire indicated by his departed friend.\nAs he reeled, he bethought him of the welcome his comrades would give\nhim. He had a conviction that he would soon feel in his sore heart the\nbarbed missiles of ridicule. He had no strength to invent a tale; he\nwould be a soft target.",
... |
3,168 | 463_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Henry wakes up he hears a distant battle raging. He looks around and sees the other sleeping men whom he momentarily mistakes for dead bodies. Also, his head is the size of a basketball . Henry is helped by Wilson, a.k.a. "the Loud Soldier," who is no longer the loud soldier, but rather the "newly mature, and more... | [
"When the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a\nthousand years, and he felt sure that he opened his eyes upon an\nunexpected world. Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first\nefforts of the sun rays. An impending splendor could be seen in the\neastern sky. An icy dew had chilled his ... |
3,169 | 463_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Things take a surprising turn here. Henry and Wilson are marching along. Henry suddenly remembers that he has that packet of letters Wilson wanted him to give his family if he died. This makes Henry feels vastly superior to Wilson. In fact, to quote Crane, Henry , "had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was stil... | [
"The regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane, waiting\nfor the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little\npacket enwrapped in a faded yellow envelope which the loud young\nsoldier with lugubrious words had intrusted to him. It made him start.\nHe uttered an exclamation and t... |
3,170 | 463_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry's regiment starts marching toward the front to relieve the men who have been fighting there. On the way they blab with Henry doing his share of the jawing. He blames the generals for how poorly the Union side is doing . Another soldier ask Henry if he thinks he, Henry, fought the whole battle single-handedly, yes... | [
"A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had\nentered the dispute. In the fog-filled air their voices made a\nthudding sound. The reverberations were continued. This part of the\nworld led a strange, battleful existence.",
"The youth's regiment was marched to relieve a command that ... |
3,171 | 463_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is the decisive chapter. This is the chapter in which the old "child-like" Henry becomes the new "man-like" Henry. It's the turning point of the whole novel. You should probably read it. OK, so one minute Henry is waiting angrily for battle to begin, and the next he turns into a wild beast, a hell-cat-fighting-mac... | [
"This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless\nhunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his\nfoot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that\nwas approaching like a phantom flood. There was a maddening quality in\nthis seeming resolution of the foe... |
3,172 | 463_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the battle, Wilson and Henry offer to go find water. This is an unsuccessful mission. What they do find is a general and another officer talking about which regiment they can most easily do without. The officer says that he'd be glad to spare the 304th because they fight like "mule drivers" . The general says fin... | [
"The ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause the\nstruggle in the forest became magnified until the trees seemed to\nquiver from the firing and the ground to shake from the rushing of the\nmen. The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable\nrow. It seemed difficult to liv... |
3,173 | 463_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the men rush toward the enemy, Henry seems to see everything with complete and utter clarity. Each blade of grass, every tree trunk, the individual corpses, are all suddenly clear to him in a way nothing has ever been before. He and the other men hesitate as if sensing their own deaths, but their lieutenant screams ... | [
"The youth stared at the land in front of him. Its foliages now seemed\nto veil powers and horrors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders\nthat started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw\nan officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving\nhis hat. Suddenly he felt a s... |
3,174 | 463_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry remembers the mule driver comment and yells at his fellow officers to keep going, but they are tired and sick of fighting. Things are looking grim. Wilson says, "Well, Henry, I guess this is goodbye." Henry looks at him and says, "Oh, shut up, you damned fool!" . The fighting gets even more fierce and desperate. ... | [
"When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the\nregiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly\nback. The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had\npresently expended their forces. They slowly retreated, with their\nfaces still toward the spluttering wo... |
3,175 | 463_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and the men head back to their camp. Oddly, they are met with jeers and jokes. One soldier says in a high voice, "Oh, mother, come quick an' look at th' so'jers!" . Henry's pride is wounded. When he thinks about it, though, he realizes that they weren't quite the war machines that he had thought. They only covere... | [
"Presently they knew that no firing threatened them. All ways seemed\nonce more opened to them. The dusty blue lines of their friends were\ndisclosed a short distance away. In the distance there were many\ncolossal noises, but in all this part of the field there was a sudden\nstillness.",
"They perceived that ... |
3,176 | 463_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and the men rest briefly. Then guns and cannons begin to roar, and the soldiers are back in it again. Henry is now the official flag bearer. The regiment is way tired to be fighting again so soon. Suddenly, the troops are so close to the Confederates that they can see them for the first time. This turns the mule ... | [
"When the woods again began to pour forth the dark-hued masses of the\nenemy the youth felt serene self-confidence. He smiled briefly when he\nsaw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were\nthrown in giant handfuls over them. He stood, erect and tranquil,\nwatching the attack begin against a ... |
3,177 | 463_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An officer says the men have to charge the fence. It seems the Johnny Rebs are hiding behind this fence and must be flushed out. Henry gets ready to flush. He "felt the daring spirit of a savage religion-mad. He was capable of profound sacrifices, a tremendous death" . He thinks of the "bullets only as things that coul... | [
"The colonel came running along back of the line. There were other\nofficers following him. \"We must charge'm!\" they shouted. \"We must\ncharge'm!\" they cried with resentful voices, as if anticipating a\nrebellion against this plan by the men.",
"The youth, upon hearing the shouts, began to study the distanc... |
3,178 | 463_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The battle is over and Henry now has the opportunity to rethink all that has happened. He feels bad about running away and about deserting "the Tattered Soldier." However, he feels good about everything else, like stealing the rebel flag and destroying the Death Star. He realizes that he, like all men, is a mixture of ... | [
"The roarings that had stretched in a long line of sound across the face\nof the forest began to grow intermittent and weaker. The stentorian\nspeeches of the artillery continued in some distant encounter, but the\ncrashes of the musketry had almost ceased. The youth and his friend of\na sudden looked up, feeling... |
3,155 | 463_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the novel opens, the soldiers of a regiment are waiting for battle. After one of the men, a tall soldier, suggests that a battle is imminent, other soldiers argue against the notion. One of the young soldiers, Henry, a private, returns to the hut where the regiment is camped and thinks about war. He recalls his desi... | [
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs\nrevealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape\nchanged from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble\nwith eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the\nroads, which were growing from long tr... |
3,156 | 463_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The regiment continues to rest, and Henry remains deep in his own thoughts, contemplating the possibility of battle and questioning his ability to cope with battle when it comes. The other soldiers, in Henry's view, don't seem to share his worries. Indeed, some are jovial and appear to be excited about the prospect of ... | [
"The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been\nthe fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the\nlatter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and\nthere was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the\nrumor. The tall one fought wit... |
3,157 | 463_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The regiment rests during the second day of their march, and that night, they cross a bridge and sleep again. On the morning of the third day, they again move out and march to a forest. They remain there for several days. The regiment rests during the second day of their march, and that night, they cross a bridge and s... | [
"WHEN another night came the columns, changed to purple streaks, filed\nacross two pontoon bridges. A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of\nthe river. Its rays, shining upon the moving masses of troops, brought\nforth here and there sudden gleams of silver or gold. Upon the other\nshore a dark and mysterious r... |
3,158 | 463_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The entire brigade finally stops near a grove of trees, and the soldiers watch other regiments of other brigades do battle ahead of them. As they watch and wait, they share rumors regarding how other companies, regiments, battalions, individual soldiers, and officers have been doing in battles. There is disagreement as... | [
"The brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove. The men crouched\namong the trees and pointed their restless guns out at the fields. They\ntried to look beyond the smoke.",
"Out of this haze they could see running men. Some shouted information\nand gestured as they hurried.",
"The men of the new regiment wat... |
3,159 | 463_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Henry waits for his regiment to enter the battle, he thinks about earlier days and people he has known. His thoughts are interrupted by the words, "Here they come!" The enemy initiates its charge, and the battle rages as Henry's regiment tries to repel the enemy forces. Henry becomes a member of a fighting team, and... | [
"There were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village street\nat home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.\nHe remembered how he had stood, a small, thrillful boy, prepared to\nfollow the dingy lady upon the white horse, or the band in its faded\nchariot. He saw the yellow ro... |
3,160 | 463_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and the other soldiers are exultant about their first triumph in battle. Indeed, Henry is in "an ecstasy of self-satisfaction." He is proud of his efforts and of his comrades' efforts. But, suddenly, a shout is heard, "Here they come again!" The regiment is surprised, and Henry's previous fears return to plague h... | [
"The youth awakened slowly. He came gradually back to a position from\nwhich he could regard himself. For moments he had been scrutinizing\nhis person in a dazed way as if he had never before seen himself. Then\nhe picked up his cap from the ground. He wriggled in his jacket to\nmake a more comfortable fit, and... |
3,161 | 463_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry continues his flight from the front line even after he learns that his comrades have repelled the charge of the enemy. As he continues to retreat, he rationalizes his flight by first suggesting that his comrades were fools to stay and fight. Indeed, if they weren't wise enough to see that their position was going... | [
"The youth cringed as if discovered in a crime. By heavens, they had won\nafter all! The imbecile line had remained and become victors. He could\nhear cheering.",
"He lifted himself upon his toes and looked in the direction of the\nfight. A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops. From beneath it\ncame the cl... |
3,162 | 463_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The sound of a major battle stops Henry's flight. Indeed, it arouses his curiosity, so he makes his way back toward the battle through the forest. He first encounters a field with several dead soldiers. As he hurries past this field, he runs into many wounded men returning from the front lines for medical treatment. He... | [
"The trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until\nslanted bronze rays struck the forest. There was a lull in the noises\nof insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a\ndevotional pause. There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the\ntrees.",
"Then, upon this stillne... |
3,163 | 463_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry returns to walking along with the retreating soldiers. He worries that the soldiers may recognize that he has run from the battle and that they are looking at him and "contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow." Indeed, he envies the wounded soldiers and wishes for an emblem of battle, his o... | [
"The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was\nnot in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.",
"But he was amid wounds. The mob of men was bleeding. Because of the\ntattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed.\nHe was continually casting sidelong g... |
3,164 | 463_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tattered soldier's reaction to Jim's death is one of awe. He continues to talk non-stop to Henry and to call Jim a real "jim-dandy." Henry pays little attention to the tattered soldier's ramblings until the soldier, trying to be sympathetic to Henry's supposed wound, says, "Where is your'n located?" Henry tells him... | [
"The tattered man stood musing.",
"\"Well, he was reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he,\" said he finally\nin a little awestruck voice. \"A reg'lar jim-dandy.\" He thoughtfully\npoked one of the docile hands with his foot. \"I wonner where he got\n'is stren'th from? I never seen a man do like that before. ... |
3,165 | 463_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Soon after leaving the tattered soldier, Henry walks up a small hill which overlooks a road. He sees two groups of soldiers on the road, one in retreat and one heading to the front. As he watches the two groups, he continues thinking about his situation. On the one hand, he feels that the retreating soldiers have vindi... | [
"He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder.\nGreat brown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him.\nThe noise, too, was approaching. The woods filtered men and the fields\nbecame dotted.",
"As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying\nmass... |
3,166 | 463_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry sees that the advancing soldiers are suddenly streaming out of the woods in full retreat. As they flee, they run straight toward his position, and soon he is surrounded by fearful, disoriented soldiers, determined to move to a safer position. Henry grabs one soldier and attempts to ask him why he is retreating, b... | [
"The column that had butted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway was\nbarely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come\nsweeping out of the woods and down through the fields. He knew at once\nthat the steel fibers had been washed from their hearts. They were\nbursting from their coats and th... |
3,167 | 463_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Henry approaches the campfire, he is stopped by a sentry. The sentry is Wilson, who is overjoyed to see Henry because he feared that Henry had been killed in battle. As the two talk, Henry explains his disappearance by saying that he got separated from the company, and he extends this falsehood by saying that he als... | [
"The youth went slowly toward the fire indicated by his departed friend.\nAs he reeled, he bethought him of the welcome his comrades would give\nhim. He had a conviction that he would soon feel in his sore heart the\nbarbed missiles of ridicule. He had no strength to invent a tale; he\nwould be a soft target.",
... |
3,168 | 463_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry sleeps soundly. He is awakened by the noise of battle. As he awakens, he sees the forms of men lying around him. Not remembering where he is, he thinks that he is surrounded by corpses and that he is resting among them. He soon remembers where he is, and the sound of the morning bugle calls all these "corpses," i... | [
"When the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a\nthousand years, and he felt sure that he opened his eyes upon an\nunexpected world. Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first\nefforts of the sun rays. An impending splendor could be seen in the\neastern sky. An icy dew had chilled his ... |
3,169 | 463_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the regiment prepares to move out, Henry and Wilson are marching together. Henry realizes that he is still carrying the letters which Wilson had given him when Wilson thought that he was going to die in battle. With this realization, Henry becomes confident, almost swaggering. He decides not to mention the letters t... | [
"The regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane, waiting\nfor the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little\npacket enwrapped in a faded yellow envelope which the loud young\nsoldier with lugubrious words had intrusted to him. It made him start.\nHe uttered an exclamation and t... |
3,170 | 463_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry's regiment moves toward the front line to relieve a unit which has been engaged in battle. While marching toward the battle line, the men are surrounded by the noise of battle. Henry and Wilson march together. As they march, they hear talk of disasters befalling their comrades, and the troops begin to grumble abo... | [
"A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had\nentered the dispute. In the fog-filled air their voices made a\nthudding sound. The reverberations were continued. This part of the\nworld led a strange, battleful existence.",
"The youth's regiment was marched to relieve a command that ... |
3,171 | 463_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and his regiment are in a defensive position, awaiting the charge of the enemy. Henry becomes increasingly agitated and angry because the enemy never seems to tire, and his regiment is dog-tired. He peers through the smoke and haze hoping to catch a glimpse of the enemy. All the while, his anger continues to buil... | [
"This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless\nhunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his\nfoot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that\nwas approaching like a phantom flood. There was a maddening quality in\nthis seeming resolution of the foe... |
3,172 | 463_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the battle ends, Henry and Wilson volunteer to go for water. Unfortunately, they can't find the stream, and the two start back to their lines. In the distance, they see a group of officers riding in a hurry. The officers include the commander of their division. As the two infantrymen slowly walk past the officers, t... | [
"The ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause the\nstruggle in the forest became magnified until the trees seemed to\nquiver from the firing and the ground to shake from the rushing of the\nmen. The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable\nrow. It seemed difficult to liv... |
3,173 | 463_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The charge begins. Henry runs toward a clump of trees, expecting to meet the enemy at that location. As Henry runs, he hears the shouts of the enemy and sees men fall to the ground in agony and death. As the charge continues, the men begin to cheer; however, this pace takes its toll on the soldiers, and the charge begi... | [
"The youth stared at the land in front of him. Its foliages now seemed\nto veil powers and horrors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders\nthat started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw\nan officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving\nhis hat. Suddenly he felt a s... |
3,174 | 463_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As quickly as the charge begins and continues, it comes to an end. Henry sees that the remaining troops in the regiment are beginning to retreat. The officers entreat the men to keep firing, but to no avail. The regiment's remaining men return to the relative safety of the trees on the side of the clearing where the of... | [
"When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the\nregiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly\nback. The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had\npresently expended their forces. They slowly retreated, with their\nfaces still toward the spluttering wo... |
3,175 | 463_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After repelling the enemy counterattack, Henry and the remainder of his regiment return to their lines where they are greeted with taunts and derogatory comments made by another regiment. Henry is angered by the comments, as are the lieutenant and the red-bearded officer. Henry looks back at the distance which the regi... | [
"Presently they knew that no firing threatened them. All ways seemed\nonce more opened to them. The dusty blue lines of their friends were\ndisclosed a short distance away. In the distance there were many\ncolossal noises, but in all this part of the field there was a sudden\nstillness.",
"They perceived that ... |
3,176 | 463_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After resting briefly from the last battle, Henry watches the battle lines reform. Then Henry's regiment is called into action. The men respond enthusiastically, at first, as they return the fire of the enemy, but soon the incessant whiz of bullets from undiminishing Rebel rifle fire leaves them more discouraged and be... | [
"When the woods again began to pour forth the dark-hued masses of the\nenemy the youth felt serene self-confidence. He smiled briefly when he\nsaw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were\nthrown in giant handfuls over them. He stood, erect and tranquil,\nwatching the attack begin against a ... |
3,177 | 463_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the battle continues, it becomes clear to the officers of Henry's regiment that the troops can't stay in their present position. The officers decide to charge the enemy's position. The objective is to push the enemy away from the fence behind which they are hiding and firing. As quickly as the tired and dispirited r... | [
"The colonel came running along back of the line. There were other\nofficers following him. \"We must charge'm!\" they shouted. \"We must\ncharge'm!\" they cried with resentful voices, as if anticipating a\nrebellion against this plan by the men.",
"The youth, upon hearing the shouts, began to study the distanc... |
3,178 | 463_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Henry and Wilson rest, they see a large number of troop movements and changes in artillery positions. These movements and changes are not occurring in a rapid, hurried fashion by men preparing for battle, but, rather, in a slower, more leisurely fashion by men beginning to withdraw. The officers begin to organize th... | [
"The roarings that had stretched in a long line of sound across the face\nof the forest began to grow intermittent and weaker. The stentorian\nspeeches of the artillery continued in some distant encounter, but the\ncrashes of the musketry had almost ceased. The youth and his friend of\na sudden looked up, feeling... |
3,155 | 463_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity. On a cold, foggy morning, an army wakes on the banks of a river. A tall soldier named Jim Conklin begins his day by washing his shirt, and rushes back to camp to report a rumor he has overheard: the regiment will move into battle the n... | [
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs\nrevealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape\nchanged from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble\nwith eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the\nroads, which were growing from long tr... |
3,156 | 463_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, the soldiers learn that Jim was mistaken: the army does not move. Henry continues to worry about his courage, and watches his comrades for any sign that they share his self-doubt. One day, the army is given orders and begins to march. While marching, the soldiers debate when and if they will see battl... | [
"The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been\nthe fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the\nlatter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and\nthere was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the\nrumor. The tall one fought wit... |
3,157 | 463_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next night finds the increasingly exhausted soldiers marching through a dark forest. Henry worries that the enemy might appear at any moment. When the enemy fails to materialize, Henry returns to thinking that his regiment is nothing more than a "blue demonstration. One morning, however, Jim shakes Henry awake. The... | [
"WHEN another night came the columns, changed to purple streaks, filed\nacross two pontoon bridges. A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of\nthe river. Its rays, shining upon the moving masses of troops, brought\nforth here and there sudden gleams of silver or gold. Upon the other\nshore a dark and mysterious r... |
3,158 | 463_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The regiment stops in a grove with the chaos of battle raging around them. The regiment's lieutenant is shot in the hand. The soldiers of the 304th take their place on the line, and veteran soldiers who mock their inexperience surround them. As a group of enemy soldiers thunders toward them, Henry and his regiment load... | [
"The brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove. The men crouched\namong the trees and pointed their restless guns out at the fields. They\ntried to look beyond the smoke.",
"Out of this haze they could see running men. Some shouted information\nand gestured as they hurried.",
"The men of the new regiment wat... |
3,159 | 463_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He suddenly lost concern for himself. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. After a tense wait, the enemy soldiers attack and Henry's regiment begins to fire upon them. The captain stands behind Henry's regiment shouting instructions. As he faces the threat of the advancing tro... | [
"There were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village street\nat home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.\nHe remembered how he had stood, a small, thrillful boy, prepared to\nfollow the dingy lady upon the white horse, or the band in its faded\nchariot. He saw the yellow ro... |
3,160 | 463_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A short while later, Henry awakes and feels delighted with himself. He thinks he has survived the horror of battle and proved his courage. He and the other members of the regiment draw themselves up proudly and praise one another's fortitude and valor, shaking hands in an ecstasy of mutual self-satisfaction. Suddenly, ... | [
"The youth awakened slowly. He came gradually back to a position from\nwhich he could regard himself. For moments he had been scrutinizing\nhis person in a dazed way as if he had never before seen himself. Then\nhe picked up his cap from the ground. He wriggled in his jacket to\nmake a more comfortable fit, and... |
3,161 | 463_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry feels a sudden resentment toward those in his regiment who did not run but, rather, defeated the enemy without him; he feels betrayed by their stupidity. To assuage his own feelings of guilt and incompetence, he assures himself that any thinking man would have realized that the best interest of the army lay in ea... | [
"The youth cringed as if discovered in a crime. By heavens, they had won\nafter all! The imbecile line had remained and become victors. He could\nhear cheering.",
"He lifted himself upon his toes and looked in the direction of the\nfight. A yellow fog lay wallowing on the treetops. From beneath it\ncame the cl... |
3,162 | 463_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Stomping through the forest, Henry hears "the crimson roar" of battle. Hoping to get a closer look, he heads toward it. He comes upon a column of wounded men stumbling along a road, and notices one spectral soldier with a vacant gaze. Henry joins the column and a soldier with a bloody head and a dangling arm begins to ... | [
"The trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until\nslanted bronze rays struck the forest. There was a lull in the noises\nof insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a\ndevotional pause. There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the\ntrees.",
"Then, upon this stillne... |
3,163 | 463_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry falls back in the procession to avoid the tattered man. As he observes the wounded soldiers around him, he becomes envious of their injuries; he considers a wound proof of valor--a "red badge of courage"--and wishes that he had one. He walks by the spectral soldier that he noticed earlier, a gray man staring blan... | [
"The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was\nnot in sight. Then he started to walk on with the others.",
"But he was amid wounds. The mob of men was bleeding. Because of the\ntattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed.\nHe was continually casting sidelong g... |
3,164 | 463_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tattered man marvels at the strength that Jim mustered before death, wondering how he managed to run when his injury should have rendered him unable to walk. Henry and the tattered man move away from the corpse. The tattered man says that he is feeling "pretty damn' bad," and Henry worries that he is about to witne... | [
"The tattered man stood musing.",
"\"Well, he was reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he,\" said he finally\nin a little awestruck voice. \"A reg'lar jim-dandy.\" He thoughtfully\npoked one of the docile hands with his foot. \"I wonner where he got\n'is stren'th from? I never seen a man do like that before. ... |
3,165 | 463_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The noise of battle grows into a "furnace roar," and Henry comes upon a line of soldiers and wagons inching down the road. He watches a column of infantry hurrying to reach the battle and senses that he is "regarding a procession of chosen beings. The enthusiastic soldiers increase Henry's feelings of wretchedness, und... | [
"He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder.\nGreat brown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him.\nThe noise, too, was approaching. The woods filtered men and the fields\nbecame dotted.",
"As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying\nmass... |
3,166 | 463_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry finally gets a look at the battlefield and sees the enemy forces swallowing the column of infantrymen he envied earlier. The blue line breaks and the blue soldiers retreat. Soon, they rush toward him. Desperate and overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of warfare, Henry clutches a fleeing man's arm and tries to as... | [
"The column that had butted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway was\nbarely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come\nsweeping out of the woods and down through the fields. He knew at once\nthat the steel fibers had been washed from their hearts. They were\nbursting from their coats and th... |
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