The Youth
Symbolism
Author
Events
Characters
100
What is his name?
What is Henry Fleming?
100
This is what a red badge of courage represents symbolically.
What is a war wound?
100
This is the author's name (hint: his last name being a type of bird).
What is Stephen Crane
100

Henry does this during the second battle.

What is runs away?

100

Henry Fleming is referred to by the narrator as this figure:

Who is the youth?

200
Which army did he fight for?
What is the Union Army?
200

A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.

What is personification?

200

The narrator speaks from this point of view:

What is 3rd person limited?

200

Henry’s head is wounded by ..

What is a retreating soldier's gun?

200

This person kills Henry at the end of the novel?

Who is nobody?

300
Which war did he fight in?
What is the Civil War?
300
He did this to his characters in order to make them more universal.
What is did not use their names?
300

The ironic fact about the author who wrote what is heralded as 'the most realistic war novel of all time.'

What is he never went to war.

300

Who takes the battle flag from the dead soldier?

Who is Henry?

300

Opposes Henry's enlistment but accepts his decision to volunteer.

Who is Henry's mother?

400

Henry had an encounter with this animal in the woods. His encounter made him feel temporarily justified in fleeing the battle.

What is a squirrel?
400
What does he become at the end of the story, making this a novel of growth and maturity?
What is a man?
400
This novel was written at the cusp of which century?
What is the 20th? (Written in 1895)
400
The reason Wilson asked for the letters back from Henry.
What is that Henry had demonstrated notable courage, and he no longer thought Henry would stand a better chance of survival.
400

The man who gave Henry a packet of letters.

Who is Wilson?

500

Henry finds this "out of place" obect within a peaceful-appearing grove of trees:

What is a corpse?

500
This person represents Henry's conscience. He plagues him as a reminder of his failure, especially to earn a legitimate "red badge of courage."
What is "the tattered man"?
500

Age of the author when he died?

What is 28?

500

Which battle is The Red Badge of Courage loosely based?

What is Chancellorsville?


500
This person's death had strong religious connotations.
Who is Jim Conklin?
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