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The Red Badge of Courage Free download ê 108 review ê eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF Ø Stephen Crane Free download The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction by Stephen Crane is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series which offers uality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader including new scholarship thoughtful design and pages of carefully crafted extras Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble ClassicsAll editions Imagine No More WarsMy introduction to Civil War novels was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier After reading it I kept looking for another and found Wilderness by Lance Weller Yet neither of these books were really about the war The first was a book about a man walking home from the war the second was just a few flashbacks It was the adventures in these two books that I loved the walking away and the walking of a man who was looking for his stolen dog I never thought that I would actually read a book on the battle itself but when a friend said that she was reading The Red Badge of Courage and that it was a Civil War novelto t I thought to give it a try After all I had always heard of the book I Just didn t know what it was aboutThe author was never in the Civil War but was born in 1871 after the war had ended and he didn t write this book until 1895 a few years before his death I thought about that Men were dying in the war at the young age of 18 or round They never really had a life and the author died at the age of 28 of tuberculosis When I think of my living so far to be 77 I think that he never really had a life either This book was heart wrenching in so many ways I wanted to say that this war was futile because so many young men had died so many laid out in the fields wounded and in pain So many felt fear in their hearts of what lay before them Was it futile It felt senseless to me I talked with my husband about this and he explained to me how it had to be fought because the other side wasn t going to back down He is right Then he said that in Nam he had seen these words on a wall in an outhouse Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity It stayed with him all these years and he added that war seldom brings real peace because it leaves the losers feeling hostile I have always been confused about the Civil War yes it freed the slaves and that was a good thing a very good thing but the south is still racist and after that war they still murdered the freed slaves they became sharecroppers and were really not free Nor are they totally freed today And some in the south desire to have another Civil War and some out of stupidity still play Civil War games Blacks are being murdered in the streets by the police and it just goes on and on Yet I know that the Civil War was fought for other reasons as well When reading this book I thought of the young boys being given guns having to wear their own clothes and having those clothes fall apart on them I thought of their being shot and lying on the fields with no medical help I thought of their dying and having no real life I thought of their fear and how some ran away leaving them with guilt in their hearts And in time my mind became numb and I hardly knew what I was reading any And then I thought of what Jesus had said if he really said it and it is as true today as it ever was Forgive them Father for they know not what they do Last of all I thought of the antiwar songs that were sung in the 60sImagineImagine there s no heavenIt s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for todayImagine there s no countriesIt isn t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say I m a dreamerBut I m not the only oneI hope someday you ll join usAnd the world will be as oneImagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the worldYou may say I m a dreamerBut I m not the only oneI hope someday you ll join usAnd the world will live as onewritten by John Lennon

The Red Badge of Courage Free download ê 108 review ê eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF Ø Stephen Crane Free download The Red Badge of Courage N the American Civil War Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin Fighting the enemy without and the terror within Fleming must prove himself and find his own meaning of valor Unbelievable as it may seem Stephen Crane had never been a member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrot I don t think this book was written with people like me in mind Not that I want to crap on an old story just because it is old but there is a reason this was so hated in many high schools My main issue was the hero of our main story he is not likeable at all Not only does he embellish the truth but he is also in a way a coward Now you might be saying Of course he is a coward It s war the horrors he has seen are uncomprehending I am inclined to agree but war is war You fight for your friends and country not for yourself I was never a soldier so maybe I have no right to say anything but our hero was not a hero He scraped by and somehow things turned out OK Also while it didn t bother me the dialogue was written almost as a slang or was shortened Some people might find this annoying Anyway I didn t have fun reading this book I am going through some things work wise and this book did not help me feel any better At least it was short RS

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