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How Did The Red Badge Of Courage Change

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What the world has seen in the present day would shock the prim and proper people from the time of the civil war. Do to the fact that technology has developed today the world is aware of a vast majority of things. The new Americans back in the day only relied on the local gossip and the newspaper for the news that happened in their own town. Stephen Crane changed the way authors write about war and he changed the minds of the spectators as well. The Red Badge of Courage became a splash of reality to everyone around the world. Reality television, movies and the internet have a way of depicting aspects of life that not everyone can see; Stephen Crane gave a new insight to the world about war life with his character Henry Fleming in his most successful novel. It was six years after the end of the most horrid war in America that Stephen Crane was born in 1871. His father was a Methodist minister and a strong female figure in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union as a mother. Crane was the last child of fourteen children; the family grew up in New York and New Jersey. His father, the minister, died nine years after …show more content…

Not that Crane has anything to worry about his novel is still read today and probably will continue to open the minds of young adults. The future for the novel was not always bright. Once Crane died, a fictional chivalry, which colored the literature of war, did as well. After dying only four years after his release and the scandal he was involved in the novel was not getting enough publicity. Twenty years after his death a critic shed light to the novel once again and credited Crane for his brilliance. Thomas Beer was the man who saved Crane from oblivion, reintroduced him to cognoscenti and placed Crane’s post-prized possession in the literacy heavens. With his revival Crane and his greatest piece of artwork will never be ordinary by

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