RBC: Chapter Five.

After some waiting battle came. They became readied and awaited whatever fate had in store. All of a sudden Henry could not remember if he had loaded his gun. It was all in the anxiety of if everything was truly ready for the battle. he did not want to forget anything vital for survival and victory. He did not want to have to run no matter how much he desired to. In this case, however, Henry did not run. He kicked it into war mode. He was ready for this battle.

"He got the one glance at the foe-swarming field in front of him, and instantly ceased to debate the question of his piece being loaded. Before he was ready to begin--before he had announced to himself that he was about to fight--he threw the obedient well-balanced rifle into position and fired a first wild shot. Directly he was working at his weapon like an automatic affair. He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part--a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country--was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand" (19). Henry finally grasped what it was to be part of the army. He found that he could be the man he had always dreamt. It was like he wasn't even thinking of trying to do this it was instinct. He saw victory in his future and wanted it. The men next to him in the battles helped him to become this. Confidence was greater when they were with him. With his rage and determintaion set in war was just a small obstacle. They began to chant brabaric chant songs in this too. It was also like they wuold load the gun put up to shoulder and fire. There was no aim in it. One happening during the batttle was when the lieutenant beat up one soldier who attemptede to leave the fron of the line. He would have none of that. Also, the captain was killed in the midst of their fighting. Soon they foudn their enemy retreating. They had won their battle and couldn't be happier. As Henry came out of war mode the air around him seemed to be caving in like he was suffocating. He drank his water and began to tkae in all that had happened. It set in that glorifying feeling he had yearned for for so long. They began to celebrate their victory and Henry began to see things clearly. He looked around at the nature of the place in which they stand and cannot believe that in the midst of such great fighting nature still manages to keep it's calmness.