The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage is 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane. The novel is written by the war. The book is mainly talking about the American Civil War is faced by the cruelty of war made Crane a success.
This novel hero’s name is Henry. The woman is a child. Henry ignoring his mother’s object. Henry pay a great attention to the war and hope to being a solider and living in an army and then he join in the North Army.
When Henry in the war. He was so nervous at first because of the death and fighting. He was wounded by accident. But luckily, he was saved by his comrade in arms. When Henry returns to camp. The other soldiers believe his head injury to be caused by a bullet grazing him in battle. The next
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The book opens with soldiers chattering, gossiping, and arguing
about when and if they will see action on the battlefield. Soon enough, the pop of gunfire and exploding artillery drown out their conversations. The reader comes to associate these sounds with boys, battle- both physical and mental-and risk. Wilson, who often airs his opinions indignantly in the novel when Crane refers to him almost exclusively as the loud soldier, the transformation of Wilson and Henry into men of quiet resolve marks a process of maturation. Where in a peaceful disposition wins out over an unquiet one and the security of feeling courage internally silences the need for public recognition.
Although the novel spans no more than a few weeks, the reader witnesses a profound change in the characters of both Henry and Wilson. Though these men do not grow considerably older during the course of the narrative. One can best describe the psychological development that the novel charts for them as the passage from youth into maturity. Innocence gives way to experience, and the unfounded beliefs of boys make way for the quietly assured, bedrock convictions of men. In some ways Crane’s style is ornate, with profuse use of color and rampant metaphor in a way which was rare for his time. The blues and grays of the two sides of the American Civil War are often described as natural phenomena, squiring like