An American hero essays

An American hero essays In the novel by Stephen Crane, Crane expressed his feelings of war by using impressionism through a complex character named Henry during the Civil War. Crane used many different ways of expressing his thoughts on war. He used Henry as a teenager who looked past at the battlefield, and only saw himself as being a hero. Henry later would find out the cruelty of war as Crane emphasized. To be a hero I believe you have to be brave and noble, for your team or in this case army and not for yourself. In this case Henry was anything but brave and noble in the first half of the story. Henry was a coward who ran and left his team to die. Henry was imature in that he was always worried about what other people thought of him, instead of what he thought of himself. Throughout the essay Henry was always worried about what other peoples opinions were of him. A true hero wouldnt worry about what others thought of him. An example of this was when Henry was walking with the wounded soldiers and Henry ran off because he had no wounds to show from the fight when the injured soldier asked him what his injury was. Henry also deminstrated being imature and afraid when he saw other soldiers run from battle during the first fight; Henry runs with the other soldiers because he is afraid. Being afraid is not a characteristic of being a hero. Henry shows off his fear when he lies about running from the battle and tells other soldiers that he was sperated during the combat, and fought with another regiment that Henry say badly needed his help. Henry was always at battle with fear. Although Henry did win his battle against fear at the end of the book, he did nothing that would make him a hero. Henry was too much at battle with himself and fought because of his fear. Again back to what I believe a hero is, to be brave is the opposite of being afraid. I do feel though at the end of the story Henry unde...