---- Paper based on Stephen Crane's works How do we grow up through the hardships of live? What can a stressful environment bring out in human? And how do you perceive a society between the reality and the myth? As a naturalism and realism writer, Stephen Crane creates vivid characters in his stories. We might find answers of these questions from Crane's three representative works, "The Red Badge of Courage", "The Open Boat" and "The …showed first 75 words of 1164 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1164 total…death of the Swede. But it seems the main determinant is the Swede's irrational beliefs. In conclusion, Crane paint a brilliant picture of this hostile, brutal world through the exploration of responsibility, guilt, dignity, repentance…etc. Therefor, we read to find that we are not alone. Bibliography Work Cited Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. The Open Boat. The Blue Hotel. "Great Short Works of Stephen Crane". New York: Perennial Library, 1999. 3-126, 277-302, 325-354.