A Critical Analysis Of: The Red Badge Of Courage

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Stephen Crane had a very short writing career, only about 10 years, and in that short time, he greatly influenced the world of writing. His first work to gain worldwide recognition was The Red Badge of Courage. His stories consist of many symbols, he had his own unique writing style, and there were many historical elements throughout his works. The views given to as a reader are very similar to a single characters full view. "Throughout The Red Badge (except in the first paragraph where, as it were, the camera eye" settles down on the camp and the youth, and the concluding one where it again recedes) we in our imagined roles as spectators never gave a larger view of the field than has the main character" (Van Doren Pg.164). This was not a new style, but he wrote so vividly, as to bring you there and catching the eye of readers.

Crane grew up in a lower class city and did not read much as a child.

Crane was the last born of 14 children. Crane was born in 1871 and died at age 28 in 1900. His father was a Methodist minister and a doctor; his mother was a housewife. His father died in 1880. He never really liked school and never stayed at one school for too long. He attended three colleges, The Hudson River Institute, where an officer of the civil war taught him, then Crane went to Lafayette college and left after one semester because of protests, finally, he attended Syracuse University and left to become a reporter. He was born and raised in New Jersey and later moved to New York to get a job. His writing history, prior to writing for a living, is very short and only compiles the writings of...