The Red Badge of Courage, a fictional novel about a boy in the American Civil War by Stephen Crane. Throughout this story Crane uses naturalism to support the story and characters. The novel is about a young private of the Union Army, named Henry Fleming, who flees from the battlefield, but later, shameful of his actions, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice, hence the name The Red Badge of Courage. Throughout Crane’s novel, naturalism is related to the theme of the novel. It relates because Crane is trying to depict a real-life story about the civil war although the story is fictional and it never happened. Especially with the details of the scenery and the dialogue between characters, making the text