A Mystery Of Heroism Analysis

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Through both of Stephen Crane's story "A Mystery of Heroism" and poem "War is Kind" he gives several different examples on how war was from this time and how it brought out the real person in any soldier whether they were scared or daring to be a hero for others. Them proving that they can be a hero themselves even if its from getting water for the rest of your team to comforting ones that have lost loved ones through war in the end of the grand scheme of things. In "A Mystery of Heroism" the hero in the beginning of the story is quenched and is in need of a drink of water along with his mates but in order to get that water he has to run across the battlefield in harm's way risking his life for the smallest amount of water to saving many of

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