Stephen Crane

For a CLEP book I have to read books by all these different authors. And the latest one I had to read a book on was Stephen Crane. The I book I read was (didn't finish reading :P) "The Red Badge of Courage." This was a very boring book, and I mean like clean out the barn instead of reading it kind of book! I read to chapter 11 and then the last chapter. I would not recommend this book, unless you like boring books about war and main characters who think to much how the war should be and what it isn't and how he's convinced their going to die. And boring stuff like that. But if you like that by all means don't let me stop you! Any ways I wrote a paper on Stephen Crane. I found it very hard to wright about his style of writing so here is the paper so if you may ever need to wright a paper on Stephen Crane, you might be able to remember this and maybe it will help. I always wright a little about the author at the end so that's why there is some information on him at the end of the paper.



Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane wrote about realism, naturalism, and
impressionism. Common themes in is
righting involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Naturalism refers to the way that Crane felt
that humans didn’t have control over nature.
Stephen Crane was born on November 1st
1871. Crane was the eighth surviving
child of his parents. He started writing
at the age of four, and had some articles in published in papers by the age of
16. He left school in 1891 and started
working as a reporter and righter. His
first novel was “Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets.” Crane won international
acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel “The Red Badge of Courage”, which he
wrote without having any battle
experience.
The focus of Crane’s writing is often centered around
man’s conflict with himself. For
example, in “The Red Badge of Courage”, the main character, Henry Flemming,
struggles with his ideals on what he thought war was going to be like and isn’t
and how he wants to be brave but isn’t.
He plays a lot of dialog in his head that doesn’t actually come to
fruition when the scene actually comes to pass.
Crane also tended to write from the unpopular point of
view. He writes instead about the lower
class and their struggles or the dark side of war instead of romanticizing the
events and eras in his books.
Another reoccurring theme in his writing is how man is
against nature and doesn’t have a lot of control over his destiny.
On June 5th, 1900 Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium (a health
spa) in Germany at the age of 28.