Essay On Red Badge Of Courage

In the book Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, it described the story of a boy who enlisted in the army during the conflict of the Civil War and how his journey and service affected him with the ugliness of battle. The book was narrated by Henry Fleming, who was the main protagonist in the story, on the events in the story. Henry was all for signing up to be in the war to earn fame and feel great about himself, but as his first battle happened, he then realized what he signed up for was way different than thought of before. After feeling the battle from the thought of death, Henry then realizes how insignificant his life is he changes to thrive in battle. In this book it tells the real traumatic and gruesome tales of war and how a boy run and hides, but then comes back and fight like a man on a spiritual journey of maturity along with the fight of conscience of the right thing to do. This brings us to say this book was made to open the door to what soldiers go through in war and how they can redeem themselves in battle and right decisions.

As the story begins it occurs during the civil war and a Union regiment that has …show more content…
War is this nasty and terrible event to go through and can be the worst thing for a human to go through. This lesson is to bring awareness to the fact that war is bad and is not something you should willingly want to go through. With war a man see horror unimaginable to anyone else by gore, losing a friend, and the constant fear of death all the time. Also to note though is that Henry may have experienced these things but it made him better than before. Is it really better when you turn into a ruthless killing machine and not even think much about how he left a man for dead. This is why the message for the story is war is terrible and it makes it even more obvious from the eyes of a soldier in