Question

30 POINTS AND WILL VOTE THE BRAINLEST TO CORRECT ANSWER!

Answer 1

D. It was not unusual for young mean of this time to willingly enlist to fight and perhaps die in a brutal war.

Answer 2

The book you are referring to is “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane.

Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of fourteen children.  He  had  six  brothers  and two  sisters  who  survived  into  early  adulthood.  Stephen Crane’s  father  was  a  Methodist  minister  who  was  already over  fifty  when  Crane  was  born.  His  mother  was  also  a devout  Methodist  who  wrote  for  Methodist  journals  and papers,  often  in  support  of  the  temperance  movement  (a movement that advocated a sober lifestyle and sought to ban the  sale  of  alcohol.

He earned a reputation as a great American novelist, poet, and short-story writer; was a forerunner of literary movements that flourished long after his death; and became a respected  war  reporter.

His most widely read novel, The Red Badge of Courage, from the terrible conflict called the Civil War. Sometimes called the War Between the States, the Civil War was just that, Americans were divided into two groups roughly along geographic lines.

The text’s treatment of the idea that Henry “burned several times to enlist” suggest that the Civil War:

D. It was not unusual for young men of this time to willingly enlist to fight and perhaps die in a brutal war.