The Red Badge of Courage as read in our books, is very small and very generic. Stephen Crane uses a person to say their thoughts while fighting during a battle in a war (Crane 493). There are different times when he describes the scene so specifically I felt like I was in the story when in reality I had only read a half a page of this story. A good example of this detailed setting writing is "Buried in the smoke of many rifles his anger was directed not so much against the men whom he knew were rushing toward him as against the swirling battle phantoms which were choking him, stuffing their smoke robes down his parched throat (Crane 493)." I figured that if half a page was as good as this was, I wonder what an entire book or story would be like. I then started thinking and wondered how come people don't really know about this story and it isn't a very popular read in modern day society. We are all so caught up in different love stories or murder mysteries that are all fiction while a very good and interesting story that actually has to do with America's history is right there in front of us and no one notices. To be honest, I am actually mad that I didn't know about this story until now even though I probably wont go and read the entire story anyways.
Emerson and Thoreau both wrote many good stories and both men loved nature and had a ton in common, but I'm not really sure if either of them ever wrote about American History or on any sort of war topics. I wouldn't put it past them though because they are both very accomplished men and have wrote many things in history that would alter society completely if we lived without. I keep learning new things about Emerson and Thoreau each time I write a blog or am in English class and I don't plan on running out of things to learn any time soon.
Crane, Stephen. “from A Red Badge of Courage.” Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 492-493. Print.
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