Love2Learn

  Lessons From The Red Badge of Courage:  What is the first thing you find yourself saying during hard times? What did you think about that same circumstance  before  you entered into it? And once you did, was your reaction different than what you expected it to be? If you answered this last question with YES, do not feel bad about yourself because you are not alone. No matter what a person believes they would do in a given situation, many people discover that what they actually do does not coincide with those prior claims. Author Steven Crane tackles this phenomenon head-on in his novel, The Red Badge of Courage.  The most difficult topics to write about are the ones that mean the most to me. Objective writing, though important enough to get the facts correct, does not require me to become emotionally involved. I have written, erased, re-written, scrapped, and started again this blog three times now. With the version you are now reading, I still believe that I have not given enough cr