Read the following description from the red badge of courage. 12. “the squirrel, immediately upon recognizing danger, had taken to his legs without ado. he did not stand stolidly . . and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic heavens.” this description best supports which of the following central ideas? a. honor and reputation b. the definition of courage c. growing from a boy into a man d. the insignificance of man in nature

 The answer for this question is letter B.

  Henry thinks of Nature as a woman, with a deep aversion to tragedy.

  While there was a war around, the nature kept in peace.  When he threw a pine cone at the squirrel, and the animal ran with fear, Henry felt  the tryumph of this  exhibition and thought Nature had given him a sign.

To him, that was an example of courage, although it was just an illusion.

i remeber a bit, but i don't have the exact qoute.

it said that everytime you chopped a head off a new one grew in it's place.

explanation:

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,