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The Red Badge of Courage

An Episode of the American Civil War
Sep 21, 2017HujeBohoc rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
What I liked about this novel is that, instead of focussing on military battles, it describes the array of feelings that a young soldier goes through in a war: excitement, boredom, fear, shame. It is only when the main character is forced to fight in order to survive that he stops having feelings (in other words, that he stops being a human) and becomes a killing machine. And this is what horrifies Stephen Crane about war.