The Red Badge of Courage
What feelings did crane employ by attributing feelings to nature?
chapter 7
chapter 7
Crane uses personification and similie to make the setting (nature) come alive. An example of this can be found in the following lines;
A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves. It landed in the grove, and exploding redly flung the brown earth. There was a little shower of pine needles.
Bullets began to whistle among the branches and nip at the trees. Twigs and leaves came sailing down.
The Red Badge of Courage