Cranes’ Influence through RED Badge of courage
...ar as he has done throughout Red Badge of Courage. Dalton Trumbo was influenced by Red Badge of Courage and he portrayed this influence in Johnny got His Gun. His work is a reflection to world war one, in his work he leads toward being antiwar, just as Crane did. Trumbo only illustrates it using a different scenario. Joe Bonham who is the main character wakes up in a bed with amputated arms and legs along with a mask on his face. Realizing that he can’t smell, speak, see or hear Joe wonders why the doctors saved him at all. While he lays there on the bed he lives inside his head. Realization that the war destroyed his whole life and that the general nature of war is foolish he makes long lasting changes in the minds of readers. Dalton Trumbo, just as Stephen Crane revealed the nature of war in general and spoke out against it by the experience of Joe and what he could have become if it wasn’t for war. Another influenced American antiwar writer is Kurt Vonnegut which shows so in Slaughterhouse-Five. The Slaughterhouse-Five is an anti world war one work. The work shows naturalistic points of view that Stephen Crane along with Dalton Trumbo used in order to assault war in general. The work itself is against the backdrop bombing of Dresden which really has no military importance but rather a historical value. The bombing kills one hundred thirty five thousand people. The work puts an emphasis on that nuclear weapons have given humankind the ability to erase life on earth. These two authors demonstrated a feeling that was started in America by Stephen Crane and did it well, with the guidelines on how to reveal the disliked and concealed message in our society they have been able to open some people’s eyes on the reality of both world war one and two. Catch 22 is another great antiwar work that takes place during world war two. It’s written by Joseph Heller. Joseph was born in New York and that went to army right after high school graduation. He joined the Army air corps in 1942nd and flew sixty bombing missions before being discharged in 1945th. After the war Joseph pursued his educational carrier, but soon was fed up by it and started writing. In Catch 22 he depicts a topsy-turvy society in which sanity and insanity, order and chaos have become confused. He presents a world that seems to not have rationality, justice, or humanity, in which the individual becomes separated, disturbed, and desperate. Such Factors are vividly seen in the “Red Badge of Courage” Henry goes through facing nature along with reality just as the pilot of the Catch 22 does, and principally...