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Who Am I?
Symbol and Metaphor
Who Said This?
Plot Details
The Life of Crane
100
Henry Fleming was by my side, when I moved away and then I died.
What is Jim Conklin/Tall Soldier?
100
Symbolizes bravery in warfare
What is the red badge of courage?
100
"Yes, yes. I've--I've had an awful time. I've been all over. Way over on th' right. Ter'ble fightin' over there. I had an awful time. I got separated from the reg'ment."
What is Henry Fleming?
100
The name of Henry's unit (number and state).
What is the 304th New York Regiment?
100
The year Stephen Crane was born and the year he died.
What is 1871-1900?
200
I may be loud and I can brag, but later I got quiet and calmed my swag.
What is Wilson/Loud Soldier?
200
An animal symbol for the Southern army in Henry's mind.
What is dragon?
200
"Oh, yeh needn't mind, Henry," he said. "I believe I was a pretty big fool in those days."
What is Wilson/Loud Soldier?
200
How Henry feels toward Wilson when Wilson asks for his envelope/letters back from him?
What is superior/better/more courageous?
200
The name of Crane's book about the life of a prostitute (full title).
What is Maggie, A Girl of the Streets?
300
Forgive me, I did not mean to blurt, when I asked where you got hurt.
What is Tattered Man/Soldier?
300
Crane often compares war to this powerful inanimate object.
What is a machine?
300
"Well," he said, with a round laugh, "I'm goin' your way. "Th' hull gang is goin' your way. An' I guess I kin give yeh a lift."
What is the Cheerful Man/Soldier?
300
Before Henry leaves for the battle, his mother gives him words of advice. She tells him to avoid two specific things.
What is drinking and swearing?
300
The type of people that Crane wrote about that was different from other authors.
What is common/ordinary/low-class/downcast people?
400
I met you in the woods alone, but with a smile I showed you home.
What is the Cheerful Man/Soldier?
400
Henry runs into and observes this symbol while running away in the woods. Covered with ants, it represents the futility of war and the lack of glory.
What is dead soldier's body?
400
I know yeh, yeh pig-headed devil. Yeh wanta go trompin' off with a bad hurt. It ain't right--now--Tom Jamison --it ain't. Yeh wanta leave me take keer of yeh, Tom Jamison. It ain't--right--it ain't--fer yeh t' go--trompin' off--with a bad hurt--it ain't--ain't--ain't right--it ain't."
What is the Tattered Man/Soldier?
400
What is unusual in the novel about Henry's encounter with the cheerful man (something Henry never sees)
What is the cheerful man's face?
400
Traveled to cover this conflict in Cuba as a war correspondent.
Who is the Spanish-American War?
500
Getting shot in the hand was the worst! I won't lie, I began to curse.
What is the lieutenant?
500
Throughout the novel, the beauty of this predominant entity is often contrasted with the horrors of war. This earthly phenomenon is also seen as indifferent to the suffering of the soldiers.
What is nature?
500
"I'll tell yeh what I'm 'fraid of. I 'm 'fraid I 'll fall down--an' them yeh know - them damned artillery wagons--they like as not 'll run over me. That 's what I 'm 'fraid of--"
What is Jim Conklin/Tall Soldier?
500
The reason the Tattered Man gives Henry as to why he cannot die.
What is he has young children back home who need him to survive?
500
The name of the book Crane wrote based on his shipwreck experience.
What is the Open Boat?