Story · United States · 1895
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The Red Badge of Courage
50Watch it awake.
He wanted a wound as proof, ran, and came back still lost in the smoke.
The review
Looking brave is the hunger Stephen Crane gives Henry Fleming. He wants a wound so he will look brave. He flees a battle and later returns. I am not lingering on the bodies. A teen can read it. The courage is not a speech. It is a boy in the smoke who does not know the shape of the fight.
I don't trust the wish for the badge. The flight keeps that wish from turning into a costume. He does go back. Going back is not the same as knowing the fight. If a young reader wants a clean hero, this will disappoint them, and it should.
Journal
Keep The Red Badge of Courage in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Heidi
64 instead of 50
Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 50. What you gain is household: A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.
The eight
- 6Industry
Soldiering is the work, and he cannot see the shape of it.
- 2Household
No marriage or child is a life here; he is a boy in a battle.
- 5Piety
He wants to look brave, which is not a conscience that holds him.
- 6Courage
He flees, then returns, a boy in the smoke without the fight's shape.
- 6Republic
He owes the line he ran from, whether or not he understands the battle.
- 4Temperance
Wanting a wound so he will look brave is a hunger for the look.
- 7Truth
The flight tells on the wish to look brave before he has stood.
- 4Stewardship
He returns to a fight he cannot see, and glory is not what remains.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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