Analysis Of 'The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh'

I chose “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury. The theme of this story is the boy overcoming fears about the battle. Conflict, resolution, characters’ dialogue, and behavior all contribute to the story’s theme because it affects the mood or the scene around the “bloody battle”. ”Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadow forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation and unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms”. The behavior of these men tells me they have fears about the upcoming battle. In the dialogue it says, “Few parents were willing to send their young sons to battle” this changes the behavior of the boy because he knows it is very dangerous. The conflict is between him