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In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane strips away the myth of war and the soldiers who fight in it, and replaces it with reality. Young Henry is carried away by the romantic notion of being a hero and chomps at the bit to join the Union army. As it turns out, being a soldier is not romantic at all, at least not while you are slopping away in the mud and fighting for your life and watching your friends die all around you. Crane addresses the fight or flight instinct that we are faced with, the youth
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is probably the only "classic" that only has an average 3 rating. Well, i can see why. First it is very short. Second it was confusing. Lastly it just wasn't that good of a book.
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