Ryans Red Badge Of Courage
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4-30-2002
Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage, by its very title, is filled with color imagery and symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming\\'s v ....
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.... world of grass. It also reveals another green world, the world of youth. Like school children, the young soldiers circulate rumor within the regiment. This natural setting proves an ironic place for killing, just as these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: \\"He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wr ....
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