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PTSD In 'The Red Badge Of Courage'

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Imagine that you are going into the Civil war and not knowing anything about weapons, of combat, or the fact that there are about nine different steps to loading a musket. That is what Henry Fleming the main character of The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane had to do.
The Red Badge of courage is about a young boy named Henry Fleming who decides to fight in the Civil War. He meets a boy named Wilson and they both need to be courageous during the horrifying battles. They find out what they have to do to get out of the war alive. At least that’s they what they thought.
Stephen Crane uses fictional narrative to make The Red Badge of Courage all the most intriguing for me and all of the other readers. The author uses PTSD to make the
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