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Literature/Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane, 1895

Stephen Crane’s novel of the American Civil War, which follows Henry Fleming, a young Union recruit, through his fear and shame in his first battles.

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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Chapter IIn context
- Nature
- War & Peace
They were going to look at war, the red animal⁠—war, the blood-swollen god.
Chapter IIIIn context
- War & Peace
He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part⁠—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country⁠—was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.
Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
Chapter VIn context
- Nature
- War & Peace
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
Chapter IXIn context
- Courage
- War & Peace
The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
Chapter IXIn context
- Nature
He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
Chapter XVIIIn context
- Religion
- War & Peace
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
Chapter XXIVIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
Chapter XXIVIn context
- Hope
- Nature

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