Stephen Crane has written many poems, short stories, and novels throughout his life. The Red Badge of Courage is a story of war, life, responsibility, and duty. It has been considered the first great modern novel of war. It traces the effects of war on Henry, a Union soldier, through life, and his experience through several battles of the Civil War. Henry as a young man lived on a farm with his mother. He dreamed …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

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