NOVEL REVIEW

“THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE”. Stephen Crane, Penguin Popular Classic 1965, 158 pages Rp. 30.000

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE is one of the greatest masterpiece of Stephen Crane he has wrote this novel when he spends a time as a war reporter first in the west to Mexico, Greece, Cuba, and Puerto rico that is reporting about Spanish-American war. There is some thing come into my brain after reading the novel “THE RED BEDGE OF COURAGE” that in my opinion about it is the frightened can lose. And glance this is all about the young army against the enemy, Confederate troop at woodland battlefield and how he describes Henry as the fainthearted young man but he wants to be a valiant soldier.
Before entering to the discussion I have known little knowledge and concern from human behavior that in every human being grow up several emotion and feeling there are wrath, hope, greedy, fear, brave, and shame. Those all can change in human feeling and in human condition one of those is frightened which is always stay in every heart of human being and I though caused of fear it’s always as the reason why, what, and how that hamper for every people to do something better for instant Yadi wants to make little home production of dolls and wants to be businessmen in order to increase better life and change the standard of life to be good one but before begin he is afraid of suffer a financial loss and experience of bankrupt lastly he is stay in condition of fear and his wish become meaningless. So there is people wants to learn how to ride motor cycle but he fear from falling down finally he/she can not ride it forever or man would like to say his feeling to girl whom he is loved but he afraid of being pushed away by her.
From those examples are really I have hear from one of my friend and seeing that examples I think that the fear can not as reason that hamper good activity or the dreams yet make the fear as one of the good challenge and motivation that have to across and lose. Actually the fear just feeling when doing some thing without confident and never try if have tried will know the result because feeling of fear it self come from every human’s mind and how human it selves solve it.
Come to the discussion that the brain and natural appetite as the magnificent part in human’s life as the mind influence desire and fact most of human being always dominate in use their desire than mind even in doing some thing in this case is in problem solving. In fact the fear can lose without conscious or aware as in the condition of being force when in this condition will appear the spontaneous for instant John who hunts the animal in wild jungle after he has fond it directly he arrow his gun to his prey then shoot without know he has disturbed Lion’s activity and finally he is raced by Lions until arrive at the deep ravine so come to his mind two chooses he has to lose his fear with jumping to it or he dies caused of springing leap of that predator. Finally he forces his self to jump into it that under is water. With this occurrence he has not be afraid again.
With being supported by have strong desire to lose the fear it’s appear in every individual of human. I think with positive desire will have hard struggle and effort that never give up in every work to realize the wish and also always have positive thinking but more significant is with more confident that have to make it as the strong power to lose the fear as in the proved say that where there is will there is way. As in the novel that I have read the young man who is always fear from the danger of death but on the other hand he has dreams to be heroism that he knows hero is a good man that always against the evil this case he wants to be a valiant soldier. Evidently his wish comes true that in the end of this novel he is appraised by the officer and his friends.
The fear will lose when receive good and positive suggestion to move to the better it is has been proved by my experience that before entering to the English department I afraid to speak to the native speakers yet after entering and I have to speak with foreigner one of my friend told me that they same with us as human being the distinguish is the place where is born and stay and try, try, and try because without training will never know and we are in studying said he with his spirit then I can take the point from his statement and make it as my suggestion lastly I am not longer afraid.
On the other hand losing the fear is not irrespective with the dreams because with has dreams can gives support to realize it or others however if not realize without effort and hard work.
Those all as in the funny story at novel “THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE’ that I have read that Stephen Crane told in his novel Henry as the youngest soldier in the regiment of army who just enter and join with the old soldiers. His aim to be a valiant soldier yet he is fear from the danger and death it’s showed when he first time he encounter with his enemy, Confederate troops at woodland battlefield he always hides on the back of the tree and flees from the battle in order to slip off from the danger and death however it’s not expected in the end of the story he defeats his enemy and he becomes wins caused of with his sincere desire to be brave to defend and save the company flag from being captured by enemy and hard work to realize his dreams to be a valiant soldier.
However the feeling of fear does not make it as obstacle in life but make it as one of the good challenge and motivation that have to be passed.






Muhammad Iqbal

Expository Writing (UAS)