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The Red Badge of Courage was Stephen Crane's best known novel. It was one of his two great ones, the other being the underrated Maggie: A WOMAN of the Avenues, that was also a ground-breaking work, taking up the subject of women's plights in commercial society as Red Badge takes up men's plight in wartime. The storyplot is a cerebral one, in what the protagonist, new recruit Henry Fleming, an 18-year-old Yankee, thinks. As generally in most Crane writing, most heroes remain nameless, including the Tall Soldier. The storyplot starts with all the enthusiasm of newbies going to warfare. Then Fleming encounters the boredom of military services camp. As the article writer famously said, 99% of the time is boredom, 1% terror. Crane introduces us compared to that subject matter through this novel. Inside the first challenge, Henry runs, but he's covered by the confusion and gets to returning and reunite along with his fellows. He picks up a fake problems for justify this when you are bonked on the head by another retreating soldier. Within the last section, Fleming steps up as the flag carrier, fights well, and survives for another day. A later Crane short tale, "The Veteran", features Fleming as a mature man, so presumably he survived the Civil Battle. But this is all kept open ended in the novel, which only addresses a few weeks time in the four-year warfare. Listen to "The Veteran" to observe how it all proved and was appreciated.
