The Red Badge Of Courage And To Build A Fire

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In art and literature realism is defined as the movement or style of representing familiar things as they actually are. Two examples of this are The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane and To Build a Fire, by Jack London. In the The Red Badge of Courage, it quotes “The men at the head butted mules with their musket stocks. The prodded teamsters indifferent to all howls. The men forced their way through parts of the dense mass by strength. The blunt head of the column pushed. The raving teamsters swore many strange oaths"(Crane). The mood set in this excerpt is depressing and dark, even serious. This quote reveals realism because it connotes how forceful and indifferent they are to the animals. It also gives an idea of how dark, cold, and