Thesis statement: In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane uses lack of courage and courage itself in soldiers during the Civil War to show the pursuit of manhood through showing courage in the face of adversity.
I. Introduction: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela
II. Body Paragraph 1
A. Topic Sentence - The youth observes people running away and there lack of courage courage in war.
B. Main Point 1 - In the beginning of the novel not only the youth, but his whole regiment is scared and other soldiers involuntarily creep into the youth's head
C. Quote - One soldier tells him “I'm a gone coon this first time, …show more content…
Topic Sentence - The youth admires courageous men and wishes he himself could have some moving him along the path to becoming a man.
B. Main Point 1 - To gain courage you have to want it, when the youth decides he wants to change his attitude he changes his destiny.
C. Quote - “ At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way, he conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he to had a wound, a red badge of courage” (Crane 52).
D. Analysis - As the youth sees soldiers who have fought and been courageous it helps him take the next step to gaining some of his own.
E. Main Point 2 - The youth wants to be like his heroes much like many others striving for manhood. F. Quote - “He could never be like them, he could have wept in his longings” (Crane 61) G. Analysis -
H. Main Point 3 - The youth exemplifies all soldiers initial courage and readiness for war in the start of the book.
I. Quote - “ In the face of his mother’s Christian pacifism and her quietly ironic undercutting of his egotism, he eventually enlisted and left for camp with a soaring conviction ‘that he must be a hero’” (Cady 121).
J. Analysis - This shows the youths’ expectations of having courage and his longing for it even from the start of the
I. Introduction: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela
II. Body Paragraph 1
A. Topic Sentence - The youth observes people running away and there lack of courage courage in war.
B. Main Point 1 - In the beginning of the novel not only the youth, but his whole regiment is scared and other soldiers involuntarily creep into the youth's head
C. Quote - One soldier tells him “I'm a gone coon this first time, …show more content…
Topic Sentence - The youth admires courageous men and wishes he himself could have some moving him along the path to becoming a man.
B. Main Point 1 - To gain courage you have to want it, when the youth decides he wants to change his attitude he changes his destiny.
C. Quote - “ At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way, he conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he to had a wound, a red badge of courage” (Crane 52).
D. Analysis - As the youth sees soldiers who have fought and been courageous it helps him take the next step to gaining some of his own.
E. Main Point 2 - The youth wants to be like his heroes much like many others striving for manhood. F. Quote - “He could never be like them, he could have wept in his longings” (Crane 61) G. Analysis -
H. Main Point 3 - The youth exemplifies all soldiers initial courage and readiness for war in the start of the book.
I. Quote - “ In the face of his mother’s Christian pacifism and her quietly ironic undercutting of his egotism, he eventually enlisted and left for camp with a soaring conviction ‘that he must be a hero’” (Cady 121).
J. Analysis - This shows the youths’ expectations of having courage and his longing for it even from the start of the