The Red Badge Of Courage Analysis

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In the story The Red Badge of Courage by stephen crane the author develops the theme by using the characters thoughts and actions. The author conveys the theme, people often doubt themselves when facing a great challenge.
The narrator begins the story with a young soldier laying in his bunk. The narrator starts with “He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from a battle.” The soldier is having conflicting Thoughts about fighting. He is trying to prove to himself that he will not run even though he is scared.
The soldier still having conflicting thoughts about war he uses his imagination to see a battle. The narrator states, “ As his imagination went forward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities.” He is having trouble …show more content…

He needs reassurance that maybe he's not the only one.
The older soldier replies with “ I've thought it might get too hot for Jim Conklin in some of them scrimmages, and if a whole lot of boys started and run, why, I s’pose I’d start and run. But if everybody was a-standing and a-fighting, why, I’d stand and fight. Be jimmy, I would. I’ll bet on it.” From what Jim is saying it is giving the young soldier a little more confidence. He is becoming reassured in his abilities to fight.
In the final paragraph of the excerpt the narrator states “ His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in there faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.” He has come to the reality of war he is still afraid but his mind has accepted war. With him listening to the other soldiers talk of war seeming unafraid he thinks that they are all just liars because it seemed as if he were the only one that was

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