How does black hawk’s rhetoric in this excerpt advance his viewpoint that people are interconnected with the natural world?
when i saw that i could not beat you by indian fighting, i determined to rush on you, and fight you face to face. i fought hard. but your guns were well aimed. the bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter.

he corrects or qualifies statements using nature metaphors.

he uses onomatopoeia to the reader hear the wind that he hears.

he uses similes that indicate that he sees experiences through nature’s lens.

he uses alliteration to emphasize the elements of nature around him during battle.

The red badge of courage documents henry's growth and maturity as a soldier through the changes in his personality and behavior. during this transition, henry's emotions run the gamut from glory to fear to depression to anger to exhilaration to courage to honor. his personality and behavior move from innocence to experience, in essence from doubt to duty. henry's maturing process occurs very quickly. in the span of just a few days, henry experiences a lifetime's worth of growth — from his enlisting for self-centered reasons of glory, to the exhilaration of his first battle, to his running from his second battle for fear of being killed, and, ultimately, to his facing the enemy and leading a charge as he becomes one of the bravest soldiers in his regiment. several examples from the novel illuminate the changes which take place in henry's character and in their relationship to the themes of doubt and duty.