How Setting Effects The Plot And Motivation Of The Protagonist in the Red Badge of Courage

Imagine what it would be like to be a soldier fighting a war of freedom as wella as a war against everyone else to stay alive. In “The Red Badge of Courage,” by Stephen Crane, is a fictional novel based on the Civil War. The protagonist is Henry Flemming, a young farmer from New York State, who becomes a Union soldier. The story centers around the three day Battle of Chancellorsville, and Flemming’s participation in it. In the book author Crane shows how a scared young soldier is transformed from a coward into a hero.
Change is never easy, especially when you are going from the lush safety of his home, with a crop of potatoes, and a herd of cows, and a mother who adored him, Flemming sets out on a long march to become a soldier. This of course was very difficult for Flemming, his unhappiness is displayed on page 18,"He wished, without reserve, that he was at home again making the endless rounds from the house to the barn, from the barn to the fields, from the fields to the ...