And Red Badge of Courage Comparing and Contrasting Soldier’s Heart and Red Badge of Courage, you realize that the two novellas are very similar to one another with very little differences. Both stories explain the hardships Charley and Henry face in the Civil War. Soldier’s Heart and Red Badge of Courage also show how the men change mentally and physically throughout the war and how it affects them. However, the novellas are different from one another because in Soldier’s Heart, Charley is a brave young boy who left his home in Minnesota to fight in the Civil War for his country and became a great soldier and in Red Badge of Courage, Henry is a cowardice man who became afraid of battle and later became