{"id":1326,"date":"2018-12-12T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2018-12-02T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T21:53:49","slug":"book-the-red-badge-of-courage-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/book-the-red-badge-of-courage-1895\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Red Badge of Courage (1895)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1355104789l\/776854.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Badge of Courage\" width=\"318\" height=\"316\" \/>The Red Badge of Courage<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 1895<br \/>\nAuthor: Stephen Crane<br \/>\nLength: 315 minutes \/ 5.25 hours<\/p>\n<p>War is an ugly thing full of death and destruction. While most books written today bemoan this fact and complain that wars should never start in the first place, what do the individual soldiers handle a war that they didn\u2019t even start? Set in the Civil War, <em>The Red Badge of Courage<\/em> is perhaps the best representation of the growth of a soldier from a deserter to a courageous fighter. Our intrinsic fear of death is what motivates so many of us to do the things we do to survive. Overcoming that fear and charging headlong into battle does take a measure of courage usually not present in most people.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Crane does a fantastic job weaving the story of a young man who has to learn what it truly means to earn the titular \u201cred badge of courage.\u201d His prose is almost poetic as he describes the landscapes, battles, and people who were forced to endure this historic war between brothers. There\u2019s\u00a0realism to the narrative that immerses the reader into the era and the battles that helped to define the war as a whole. In the end, though, this book could almost be set during any period and any war; the themes present within it are that timeless.<\/p>\n<p>While it took me this long to finally sit down and go through this book, I\u2019m glad I finally did. I had started it many years ago but lost interest for some reason. This time around, I was able to appreciate the story based solely on the strength of Crane\u2019s writing. I know this book is usually assigned to elementary school students at some point, but if it has escaped your \u201cread\u201d list as it did for me, then I would urge you to pick it up and give it a read. It won\u2019t take long, and it\u2019s certainly worth the time spent reading it.<\/p>\n<p>A timeless classic that deals with the human side of war, I give <em>The Red Badge of Courage<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Badge of Courage Year: 1895 Author: Stephen Crane Length: 315 minutes \/ 5.25 hours War is an ugly thing full of death and destruction. While most books written today bemoan this fact and complain that wars should never start in the first place, what do the individual soldiers handle a war that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[1573,55,81,105,8,1575,1574],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-1573","tag-book","tag-civil-war","tag-classic","tag-review","tag-stephen-crane","tag-the-red-badge-of-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}