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In Stephen Crane's Red Badge Of Courage, a young soldier discovers not only the bitter-sweet sides of war, but himself as well. Throughout the work, Crane takes us, as well as the youth, on a journey to reveal the truth of warfare, and its effects on an individual. The tale is compromised of many pitfalls and plateaus, and Crane utilizes different literary elements to convey these scenarios to the reader. Impressionism, naturalism, color imagery, religious imagery, and word systems are all taken advantage of to convey the main theme of this story; In battle, man loses perspective. Impressionism, a literary technique used to portray a character's thought as opposed to objective reality, is consistently allowing the youth to lose sight of reality. Often times, Henry, the protagonist, views his surroundings in a completely different fashion then they are actually occurring. He seems to do this mostly to justify his actions. It appears to be when he has made the wrong decision that he prefers to find a way to vindicate his mistake instead of just confessing to his erroneous ways. A prime example of this type of behavior is in the 5th chapter, where Henry runs away from battle, and then at