Crane Approach To War

In the story, Crane uses literary techniques such as logos and ethos to describe the harshness of the Civil War and of life. The story tells of a Civil War lieutenant who is shot in the arm while parting out coffee for his troops, and despite the lack of severity of the wound, his arm must be amputated. The lieutenant uses logic when he struggles and denies the fact that his arm requires amputation, but the doctor insists. The story tells of his struggle by saying, “‘Let go of me,’ said the lieutenant, holding back wrathfully, his glance fixed upon the door of the old schoolhouse, as sinister to him as the portals of death.” This shows the seriousness of life and the unfairness of it because the lieutenant was not engaged in battle, yet a stray bullet hit his arm. The story also shows emotion when the lieutenant’s arm is unjustly amputated and he must sooth his family by telling them that his situation is not as serious as they make it out to be, although he himself felt it was unfair. He faces life with dignity and realizes the seriousness of

Crane was giving the abysmal family life because again he was trying to give readers a background as well as a peak into the life of these people. He was explaining and analyzing the level of literacy buy writing passages how they would sound if you said it out loud. He was also showing how hard it was for people growing up in that lifestyle.

In ‘A Mystery of Heroism,” Stephen Crane opens his story with specific details of a war scene. He writes, “He could now be seen lying face downward with a stirruped foot stretched across the body of his dead horse” and “around this motionless pair the shells still howled.” This scene describes how there are dead soldiers and horses just lying around in the middle of the turmoil. That man is just another dead body to everyone else. This shows the reality of war, violent and deadly and definitely not the pretty picture some paint it to be. Later on in the story, Crane also writes “a lieutenant of the battery rode down and passed them, holding his right arm carefully in his left hand. And it was as if his arm was not at all part of him, but belonged

Cranes use of metaphors and similes are effective in the way Crane wrote the book by him comparing war to everyday life and connecting with the reader .One example of a metaphor is “ They [veterans] call the reg’ment ‘fresh fish’ and everything”(Crane 12) while the literal meaning is that the regiment is being called inexperienced and young when Henry is about

Both Crane and Robinson show how certain events psychologically impact human mind and behavior by forcing one to commit an unusual and dangerous action. In “A Mystery of Heroism” Crane shows the psychological thoughts that caused Collins, an employee of the A company, to force himself into a dangerous situation. Collins’ thoughts about showing his bravery and proving his worth to his comrades motivated him to go get the water

     Stephen Crane's purpose in writing The Red Badge of Courage was to dictate the pressures faced by the prototypical American soldier in the Civil War.  His intent was accomplished by making known the horrors and atrocities seen by Unionist Henry Fleming during the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the conflicts within himself.

Stephen Crane composed many novels, poems, and short stories but one of his novels stood out more than the others- The Red Badge of Courage. In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane utilizes tone, conflict, and imagery to emphasize courage and bravery. In his novel, Crane accurately and precisely describes not only the physical and mental challenges that face a soldier in battle, but the emotional challenges as well. This creates the theme of bravery and valor throughout the entire novel.

The Red Badge of Courage is not a war novel. It is a novel about life. This novel illustrates the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Stephen Crane uses the war as a comparison to everyday life. He is semi-saying that life is like a war. It is a struggle of warriors—the every day people—against the odds. In these battles of everyday life, people can change. In The Red Badge of Courage, the main character, Henry Fleming, undergoes a character change that shows how people must overcome their fears and the invisible barriers that hold them back from being the best people—warriors, in the sense that life is war—they can be. Henry has a character change that represents how all humans have general sense of

In Crane’s novel, flags not only symbolize different armies, but they also represent faith and sacrifice. Flags are most often associated with the representation of a country or state. Similarly, Crane uses flags to stand for each the armies that fight during the war in the novel. However, Crane’s flags also represent abstract concepts.

Being known for writing what he saw and experienced gave Crane his recognition in his book “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” was said to be a very brutal story of a prostitute that lived on the streets. Crane’s eye for detail gives “A Dark Brown Dog” full life; that this was just a short story based off of what he experienced while living on the street. He wrote about the life of a little boy that he watched and the tragedy that the boy had to deal with in

Stephan Crane within The Red Badge of Courage once said: “The men dropped here and there like bundles. The captain of the youth's company had been killed in an early part of the action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought some friend had done him an ill turn.” (Source <insert correct citation in final draft…from http://www.shmoop.com/red-badge-of-courage/warfare-quotes-3.html>). The quote, from The Red Badge of Courage, helps support the mere fact that Crane was one of America’s finest authors of the Realism movement. The Realism movement was alive from the 1860s-the 1900s. Its style involved “appearance presented in an unembellished way” (PBS). The quote meaning that the style of the Realism movement involved writing that presented the world in a realistic and truthful way. Influenced by his upbringing from an educated family, Crane’s superb writing skill was inspired by his environment and is a classic example of an American writer.

The difference between Crane’s novel and other books like it is that in many ways, it’s unconventional and doesn’t tell a story quite like any other book. Barely anything about where the battles took place are described throughout the book, simply giving the reader the information that there were 2 opposing sides that were or were not in battle. Another distinction is how Crane portrays the character’s place in all of this. Instead of feeding the reader information that may have been learned or assumed about the opposing side, portraying them as “the bad guys,” or even depicting his fellow soldiers as people who were fighting for a righteous cause. Both sides were seemingly just ordered to fight each other because of the color of their uniform. Crane develops Henry as a character throughout the novel in no specific way, where he makes direct transitions from a cowardly soldier forced to fight all the way into him becoming a more mature and courageous person that is slowly forged into over the course of the book. Even so, not all questions that arise throughout the story are answered throughout the novel, giving

Stephen Crane definitely asks questions that he doesn’t give answers to and that have further meaning behind the actions in, An Episode of War. The questions he asks sometimes aren’t put blatantly, the reader sometimes has to read deeper into the text to simply find the question. The first question Crane has you infer is who shot the lieutenant in the story. “...when suddenly the lieutenant cried out looked quickly at the man near him as if he suspected it was a case of personal assault,” (pg. 509, line 11). The obvious question is, who shot the lieutenant? Judging by the fact that these men are at war, the assumption would be an enemy soldier, but Crane never really tells you. “ I did found myself wondering what YOU as the rhetorical critic interpreted these signs and what these "signified" meanings mean

Throughout the entire story, the ideas of violence arise, but the actions upon them do not. This is a very bad path Crane chose if he was looking to depict a formula western. If this story was to follow the standards