War Is Kind Analysis

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As a reader they want to know the truth about the Civil War. Sometimes the reader doesn’t understand the hardships that the war, itself has caused to the soldiers.When the reader understands the irony of war, they will understand the whole truth about the Civil War. Stephen Crane uses irony in “War is Kind” and “A Mystery of Heroism” to prove that he is opposed to the civil war by expressing figurative Language, by using irony and sarcasm and explaining the man-made hardships that the war itself has caused.
Stephen Crane uses a lot of irony and sarcasm in his works. In “War is Kind” he tells the reader rather it’s a maiden, a small child, or a mother to “do not weep… War is Kind.” We all know that war is not kind and that in fact war is bad for our country. In Crane’s short story “A Mystery of Heroism” he shows them how bad war actually is without actually saying war is bad. He often implies that war is good and not bad, but he really wants to say is that he doesn’t want war and that war is bad. When Crane talks about the war he is really being sarcastic about it. In his poem “War is Kind” he says “These men were born to drill and die,” in other words he means that all men are good for is to work and work and work until they can’t work anymore. He also shows us how hard war
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Crane tells the readers about the trama’s that war has caused. In Crane’s “War is Kind” he is talking to the mother of a soldier who has died in the war and is explaining to her that “War is Kind” but is also trying to tell her that war took her son away from a life he could have lived. It takes away the safety that we feel every time we think about the truth of the wars. In Crane's “A Mystery of Heroism” there is a soldier without an arm, but he continues to ride his horse and fights to keep his country safe for everyone else. In the end our soldiers are so used to the war it is beginning to get