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The Red Badge Of Courage Analysis

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In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, the quote has significance because it represents the loss of fear and innocence in Henry and “the youth”. Henry is a soldier that had wanted to be a war hero, but when he came to the time of battle he became a coward. He was ashamed of how he had acted and lied about his actions to protect his reputation. In the following battle he was no longer himself, he had fallen asleep and woken up a knight (chapter 19). In the book, Henry represents the youth everywhere while they are in a scary situation. Henry represents the youth because he is in a new, terrifying, and life-changing situation that almost every child goes into as an inexperienced child, but comes out of as an adult. Almost every human
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