Monster Essays - The Red Badge Of Courage -x
Stephen Crane has written many remarkable poems, short stories,
and novels throughout his short life (He lived only to the age
of 29). The Red Badge of Courage is a tale of war, life,
responsibility, and duty. It has been considered the first ^great
modern novel of war^(Alfred Kazin). It traces the effects of war on
Henry Fleming, a Union soldier, through his dreams of battle, his
enlistment, and his experience through serveral battles of the Civil
War.
Henry, ^the youth^, was a young man who lived on a farm with
his mother. He dreamed about what fighting in a war would be
like, and dreamed of being a hero. He dreamed of ....
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