My English Book (Chapter 1)

Today, I started reading a book for school. It’s called the Red Badge of Courage. The first chapter is about a boy who wants to join the army but his mother won’t let him. His mother won’t let him because his father died and she needs his help on the farm. So without his mother knowing, he went to enlist in the army in the morning. Then later, after he leaves home, he’s waiting in a hut on a hill waiting with a bunch of other men for the battle.