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Compare And Contrast The Red Badge Of Courage And The Soldier's Heart

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Do you ever contemplate about what it would be like to be in combat in the Civil War because if so readers can get a good outlook of what it would be like to fight on the union side in both of these books The Red Badge of Courage and the Soldier’s Heart. In this essay one will be contrasting the two stories mentioned earlier. As well in this essay one will be comparing these two very informational and exciting stories about the civil war and the characters as well as how ironically the two characters have very many resemblances. While reading this essay one comprehends the two stories similarities and differences, also the reader will acquire knowledge about how the main characters in both of the stories have very similar points of view. There are very few differences between the stories Red Badge of Courage and Soldier’s Heart here are a few just to show how little they have in differences. While reading one catches that the boys are different ages. As well in these stories they combat in different battles and have different experiences while in these battles. Some other subtle differences are that they came from different states as well as different backgrounds. As one contrasts these two books they find that even though …show more content…

The Red Badge of Courage and Soldier’s Heart have very few contrasts but have many comparisons which may lead one to believe that ironically both of the authors may have gotten their information from the same source. Once again these stories have very few variances but just enough to where one can enjoy both stories separately. But they do have many similarities which makes these stories both easy reads because they have so much in common you could almost expect it to be from the same author. All in all these are both great stories by themselves but the similarities and differences make them great stories to compare and

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