The Mystery Of Heroism By Stephen Crain

In the short narration The Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crain, the main character Fred Collins, proves to be a hero. The fact that Collins is a hero is very indisputable throughout the duration of the story, especially when he embarks upon a journey through a dangerous battlefield to obtain water for not only himself, but his comrades as well. When Collins was on the battlefield filling the canteens he stated that it felt like “The canteen filled with maddening slowness, in the manner of all bottles (Crain n.pg). He has extreme dismay and time seemed to be going in slow motion because of how critical of a situation it was. As Collins was out in the battlefield “They fired fiercely and rapidly at the distant foliage on which appeared little