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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a book about a young man drawn into the Civil War in America. The main character is a young man named Henry Fleming. He is very exited to go into the war, and he does so against his mother's wishes. After Henry joins the army, he meets a man by the name of Jim Conklin. Jim is very tall and he becomes a good friend of …

…who can go crazy with this much stress. The book fails however at tying up the ending or really taking us into the psyche of Henry, something this book dealt much about. This book became a classic for what it succeeded in doing. It was different from other books about war by catching the actual spirit of the war. War controls. This book shows the true effect to people in war and is recommended highly.