Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Komunyakaa’s “Camouflaging the Chimera” may seem quite similar, but they are in fact very different from each other. For instance, The Red Badge of Courage focuses on one main character while “Camouflaging the Chimera” focuses on a group of soldiers. So, despite how similar they may appear at a first, when you dig deeper and take a closer look, you’ll find that they are not as similar as you thought.
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The excerpt we read from Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage and Yusef Komunyakaa's poem camouflaging the Chimera have some similarities and differences apart from them being decades apart. Some of the similarities and differences between the two works include themes, language, and genre. The themes of the works are very different because in Crane's piece the theme is about one young soldier who wants to be remembered after the civil war as war hero and eventually have a statue built in his honor. In Komunyakaa's piece the point of view of a whole group of soldiers.
Historical Analysis Red Badge of courage reflects the time it takes place because it takes place during the civil war. The teenage boy wants to go fight in the war, which was common back then, because it brings you great honor. The Battle of Chancellorsville resembles the first battle Henry takes part in. When Henry runs away and finds himself in a forest it resembles this battle because it took place in a forest as well. Some strategies also appear in the book like splitting into two attack parties instead of one large one.
Last, is that one is very long and the other is very short. They are similar because there both in the same time and setting. Therefore, Drummer Boy Shiloh and Drumbeats and Bullets are similar and different. The two stories are different because there written by different authors.
Although Crane and Komunyakaa are both poets, they have their differences. Crane is writing about the civil war while Komunyakaa wrote about his experience of the Vietnam war. Crane’s historical background is inspired by reading about soldiers and their experience first handedly. “The Red Badge of Courage” is more of a psychological portrait of the main character’s perception in a time of war relating to Henry Fleming's experience in combat. Komunyakaa wrote his poem based on his personal experience of actually being there in the vietnam war serving as an information specialist.
The Battlefield Heart and Open Wounds The three soldiers that were wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg were Robert E. Lee, Joshua L. Chamberlain, and John Buford. The wounds of each of these soldiers were Robert E. Lee had a heart disease, Joshua L. Chamberlain had a gunshot wound that went through both hips, and John Buford had a gunshot wound in his left arm. The main reason for the occurrence of the American Civil War was the controversy over slavery, this caused the division of the U.S. and formed the North and South. The South allowed slavery while the North didn’t.
Soldier’s Heart In the book Soldier’s Heart, a young boy named Charley Goddard signed up to fight in the civil war in 1861, when he was just fifteen years old. The war was not at all what Charley expected. He was expecting to go in the war fight for a few years, become a hero, then come home to his family. But Charley didn’t realize the other dangers he would be facing, besides the actually fighting.
Besides the two stories share the same background of the “war”, how the geographical backgrounds, where the stories are plotting, is not changing from the beginning to the end is also similar. This is to say, the characters are actually in the same spot from beginning to the end, but what is changing and moving is all happened in the imagination or in the internal mind. For example, on the book ‘an Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge’, the story starts with the scene that the main character, Peyton Farquhar, is standing upon a bridge, and the first scene of ‘mark on the wall’ also starts with depicting the character seeing the “mark on the wall”. After this first scene at this geographical location, it seems
Soldier’s Heart is written by Gary Paulsen and is based on a true story. The story Soldier’s Heart is about a boy named Charley Goddard who wants to become a man. Charley does have soldier's heart. Soldier’s heart is a disease name that was used during the times of Civil War. it was said that although the disease was called soldier’s heart, most people did not know what the disease was.
The short story and the movie have some similarities and differences. The movie had some stuff that the short story didn’t have. The similarities that the movie and the story have are Red Chief calls Bill Old Hank and he calls Sam snake eyes. Also, another similarity is that Red Chief didn’t want to go home. Another similarity is that Bill and Sam wrote a letter to Mr. Dorset for the return of Red Chief.
There are several alterations between the books. The soldiers that the books were about are from different states, Henry was from New York, and Charley was from Minnesota. The soldiers also had different injuries, identical to Charley from Soldier’s Heart he got his injury in battle and Henry from The Red Badge of Courage got his running away from Battle. Charley stayed in battle even though he wanted to leave, he stayed and fought, but Henry ran when the Confederates
One of the most important similarity is that both stories are well enjoyed over generations and teach great life lessons that serve the sole purpose of the
First person. For centuries the notion of war as an exciting and romantic endeavor has existed until Stephen Crane DE glorified war in his novel The Red Badge of Courage. He tells about the true nature and experience of war through a young soldier Henry Fleming and contrasts it with his romantic imagination. Crane introduces a more realistic approach to war which is in contrast to Henry’s expectations.
A Soldier’s Dilemma Like many others in his regiment, Henry Fleming, protagonist in The Red Badge of Courage, expects the Battle of Chancellorsville to be filled with heroism and legendary acts of dauntless heroism. Heroism, however, seems nowhere to be found, and Henry is left questioning his own valor. In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane writes Henry Fleming as a flawed yet good-hearted character by revealing his inner thoughts as he runs from the battle, his actions directed toward comrades, and by displaying Henry’s differences at the end of the story to emphasize the inner struggle between courage and cowardice.
