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    step up for their brothers in war. Some soldiers will even sacrifice their lives and not even think twice about their own self-preservation because they have already accepted the idea of death. They fight in the war assuming that they are already dead. Other soldiers are selfish enough to run away from the battlefield and not risk the chance of losing their lives. They do not care about any of their comrades but only care for themselves. In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane‚ Henry Fleming

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    As part of a book project‚ I read "The Red Badge of Courage." It is about a soldier named Henry who wants to earn his mark as a soldier. Initially he strays away from the battlefield because he is afraid of death and wants to live among the living and not the dead. Later‚ he becomes desperate to get shot and earn his "Red Badge of Courage" to prove to the other soldier that he is not only a man but a true hero. The purpose of this project was to write a journal entry for a series of chapters and

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    Though it is obvious that Steven Crane’s novel entitled The Red Badge of Courage is centered on one specific symbolic focal point‚ it is quite easy for the reader to look deeper into the title in search of another meaningful symbol. After much contemplation I realized that Crane uses color imagery as a symbol for many features within the story. Many specific colors were present more than once and often used for a certain representation of a character or characteristic. The particular noticeable colors

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    brave or intimidating. But‚ in real life that is not what always happens. In the book A Red Badge of Courage‚ Henry Fleming‚ a boy who is a soldier in the civil war feels noble of himself that he is in the war because it is what “real men” do. In this story Henry is excited to go to war but does not know how he will act when he goes off to war. Henry felt proud and daring when he left home to go to war‚ but as any other man he wonders how he will act when confronted with the reality of battle

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    Blood‚ horror‚ and friends dying. Stephen Crane tells readers how Civil War battles actually were like. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about a boy named Henry Fleming who is in a Civil War battle‚ while there his friend Jim dies‚ this story really conveys the real essence of the Civil War. Stephen Crane uses Civil War guns and descriptive features to represent what life was actually like in the Civil War. Crane is particularly strong with his descriptiveness. “He turned now with a lover’s

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    Does War Turn a Boy Into a Man? Did the war change Henry? Did it make him mature much faster? Do you think it made him grow up quicker? Many events in the book The Red Badge of Courage proves that Henry is no longer the scared boy he was when he first enlisted for the war. I believe that war can turn a boy into a man. Make a boy become an adult. War is something that is tragic but also can be rewarding. You have to make choices out on the battlefield in a matter of seconds. Some of the choices

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    added‚ and the budget they are given to add onto the pressure it seems understandable on how such well-written series like The Hunger Games and Harry Potter received movies only to disappoint their fanbase. In the first chapter of the book The Red Badge of Courage there are a few scenes

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    In “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane written in 1895 and set during the civil war‚ Crane presents a fiction novel on a young man named Henry wanting to become a U.S soldier who discovers the truth of war. He goes to war and figures out the hard way that war is not the place for him until he meets a man name Tall Soldier and that man he meets and looks up to doesn’t make it. From that man dieing it shook Henry up and then Henry really thinks hard and figure that his live is on the line it

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    In the novel Red Badge of Courage‚ Crane depicted the main character Henry as a callow youth who recently joined the Union army for the sake of his naive conception of heroism plus the quest for honor. Thus‚ in the beginning‚ Henry fought along with other comrades during the first battle. Although he bosomed the sentiments as fear and uneasiness‚ everything was still new to him and it left him no time to react on his guts. However‚ after the early round of brutality‚ Henry savvied right enough that

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    Fear is a powerful thing. It can make or break someone. Even the strongest person can fall in the face of fear. In the novel The Red Badge of Courage the author‚ Steven Crane‚ suggests that fear can destroy someone if they allow it to get to them. Henry hows the greatest fear out of anyone in the novel. Early within the novel he shows his fear. He tried to “mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from battle.” here is where the fear is slowly consuming him. He is completely overwhelmed

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