Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage - Enhanced Classroom Edition

How does a coward become a hero? Henry Fleming is about to face that very question. Hearing the call to serve in one of our nation’s greatest conflicts, the American Civil War, Henry leaves both home and family to take up the life of a Union soldier. However, though he had, “…dreamed of battles all his life…” and “…imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess…” he soon finds that the soldier’s life is more than he bargained for, and a single wrong decision runs the risk o...