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Red Badge Of Courage, By Stephen Crane

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In literature, we are often faced with characters who readers can identify with. Whether it be the character's motives, background, views, or personality traits, readers love when they can see themselves in their favorite characters. If any, when a character is placed in a predicament they've never been in before, they begin to look back on their old ways and views. These examples show just how close to realistic these fictional characters can be. Henry Fleming of Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage is a perfect example of a regular youth thrown into a situation they could have never imagined. Like most young people, Henry has a very romanticized view of what heroes, courage and war are really like. He believed that he would come out of the

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