Essay On War Is Kind And A Mystery Of Heroism By Stephen Crane

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Stephen Crane writes about how bad war is, he just does it discreetly. He does this to show his emotion on how he doesn’t like war. In Stephen Cranes “War is Kind,” and “A Mystery of Heroism,” he writes about how everyone involved in war including family members and loved ones are affected by war, also to show readers that people in the war have different experiences, some people loved the war and wouldn’t have it any other way, but also how some people hated the war and would have chosen any other way. Stephen Crane shows irony through “War is Kind,” and “A Mystery of Heroism,” to show how the people who are involved in the war are affected and how it affects readers’ emotional appeal, and to show that people experience war differently. Stephen Crane reaches the readers emotional appeal in many different ways, he shows in his works “War is Kind” that not only people who go to war are affected but how family and loved ones are affected by the war. In “War is Kind” Stephen writes that a man threw his hands up, what he means by this is that someone for some …show more content…

In “A Mystery of Heroism” Fred Collins is experiencing war at its worst. It is almost as if he is frozen in time, he is moving slowly trying to get some water. He is scared to move or to get the water fast, his life is almost flashing before his eyes. He is remembering times he had with family and friends, and the regrets he had in his life. While the lieutenants are just messing around spilling the rest of the water that Collins wanted and needed so desperately. Stephen writes in “War is Kind” that the wives, the sons and daughters, the mothers and fathers of war veterans shouldn’t cry and shouldn’t be sad because they have sacrificed their lives or risked their lives for the greater good of the