Crane- War Dehumanizing
In the early years of the Civil War, writer Stephen Crane wrote two pieces of literature about war. He describes in the short story, Mystery of Heroism, why a young man would risk his life to get two buckets of water. In the beginning ofthe story the character, Collins, is cheered on by his comrades to get the water in the middle of a skirmish and he risks his life which is so precious to many to go fetch a pail of water. In the poem, War is Kind, Crane describes what war is like and what is taught about war. In the poem Crane shows emphasizes the rumor people who want to join the army are people who look at it from the outside and see how well coordinated it is, they also see how much fun it may be. In the short story Crane describes the battlefield in which thousands of wounded and dying soldiers show what war is really like, death and destruction. In the two pieces of literature Stephan Crane uses many ways to show that war is feudal and destructive. The similarities between the story and the poem show that war is dehumanizing. In Crane’s short story, he writes of a character who risks his life for a pail of water, because someone joked him about his thirst, “Well, if yeh want a
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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