In the novel "The Red Badge of Courage", author Stephen Crane used Henry Fleming as a subject to explain how the surrounding environment can influence behaviors and characters of someone. Throughout the novel, Crane was able to show that war can have a great effect on people. used the protagonist, Henry Fleming, to carefully support his belief of the war with details of the battles, Henry's actions during the battles, and scenes of dead people. Stephen Crane wrote, “He imagined that a strange voice would come from the dead throat and croak after him in horrible threats” (Crane 60). So, in this short quote, Crane is essentially telling the readers that the protagonist is already going mad , but he is not going crazy yet.This is the effect war has on people especially at the beginning of the war. Crane's novel is also different from other novels in that it focuses on the theme often about love as shown in Glory, One Wore Blue by Heather Graham, Always to Remember by Lorraine Heath, etc... Heather Graham is best known for Civil War stories and almost most of them are related to the romance genre .In one of his books, Gloria, he talked about a soldier who found his love while taking refuge on a plantation. The war led him to that adventure other related stories. But Crane's novel really was a different aspect for us to see because in the whole novel he never talked about the romantic scene while the other one talked about it. So, that would be the unusual thing I see in Crane's novel compared to other novels based on the Civil War. Crane's idea of ​​war is: “the writing of a hero who overturns the romantic ideal and pretends to have a wound in which... in the center of the paper... life passes through his surroundings. Crane completely changed Henry's behaviors through naturalism and war situations. Henry once thought that being in the army was very good, but when he joined the army, everything started to change and his character also changed and brought him to a new person. Crane's ability to write a novel like this became a great book of naturalism and realism. Works CitedBrooks, Sydney. “Mr. Stephen Crane and his Critics.” The Dial 20 (May 16, 1896): 241-244. Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Amsco School Publications, Inc., 1971. Mason, Jean.” Glory by Heather Graham." The Romance Reader. Anderson/The Romance Reader.Web. November 18, 2013. .Solomon, Eric. "A Definition of the War Novel." Stephen Crane: From Parody to Realism. Cambridge:Harvard UP, 1966. 181-187.