The Red Badge of Courage
The key to understanding a writer's work is being able to follow what the writer is saysing. Imagery is a key way of doing so. The imagery of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" focuses on protraying ideas to create within the reader a sense of involvement. This helps the reader interpret ideas and follow the writer's work with an insight and feeling for the work. This detail is also very important in keeping the reader As "The Reader's Encyclopedia" put it This novel presents a study of the psychological reactions of Henry Flemeing, a young soldier during the civil war, Battle of Cellorsville, his first experience in combat. He is shown in successive emotional states of patriotic zeal, bravery, fear, shame, near hysteria, and finally courage. (Benet, 912) When one reads this work as they proced throughtout all of Henry's emotions, one will feel those emotions inside themselves as Henry feels them. For example, "The youth, nevertheless, felt a threat. His mind shrank from going nearer to the danger,a nd thereafter he was silent." (Crane, 63) The novel builds the reader up to the final emotion
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Approximate Word count = 1086
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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