Comparing and Contrasting the Red Badge of Courage to Soldier’s Heart Two volunteers fight for the same Civil War in two different stories and tell different stories, but have an enormous amount of similarities. In The Red Badge of Courage, the young man goes to the war, he got scared and ran away. In Soldier’s Heart, the young man goes to the war and fights in the battle. These stories have a lot of contrasts, but have a whole heap of comparisons. There are several contrasts in this story, here they are. Henry (Red Badge of Courage) is excited whenever he signed up for the army, he is then turned into a coward whenever the war actually starts. Charlie (Soldier’s Heart) is extremely excited about going into war, he signed up to do his
