Red Badge of Courage

This book must be read and ready to discuss on Wednesday, June 1.

As you read, consider the meaning of the following quotes. Don't search for them, just look at them now and notice what recurring themes they may suggest:

“War, the red animal, the blood-swollen god.” (23)

“The generals were idiots.” (23)

“Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it
to be nothing but rest.” (26)

"A rather fat soldier tried to pilfer a horse from a dooryard…He was escaping with his
prize when a young girl rushed from the house and grabbed the animal’s mane…the young girl stood like a dauntless statue.”
“The observant regiment, standing at rest in the roadway, whopped at once, and whole whole-souled upon the side of the maiden…they entirely ceased to remember their own large war. They jeered the piratical private, and called attention to various defects of his personal appearance.” (60)

“The youth…began a long denunciation of the commander of the forces.” (87)

FINALLY, WHAT IS THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE?