Henry Fleming is a character in a book titled "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane where he was mainly described as the main protagonist, the Youth. He started off as a young, naive soldier who wants to join the military without thinking seriously about it until his character grows into accepting his cowardice and selfishness and eventually comes out to be one of the bravest soldiers.
1A) Creditable because it's a magazine.
1B) Not creditable because it's online.
The metaphor was used as the figurative language in the poem “Mother to Son”. She compared her life to a crystal staircase which has obstacles and unexpected corners that make the journey more difficult.“Mother to Son” poem Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor - Bare
In rashomon I think the servant doesn’t kill the lady