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The Red Badge Of Courage A Red Badge of Courage By Ashley Ranck Throughout the novel, A Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane used many different colors. These colors all had significance and/or symbolism of an important event in the novel. The colors in the novel also often symbolized the mood of the events. One of the many colors that Stephen Crane used in the novel was yellow. Crane used this color to often describe the sun, sky, or even the road. When Crane described the sky he quoted, “In an eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the incoming sun.” The color yellow was used to paint a mental picture of what Crane was describing into the reader’s head. The color was also used to make the description of the object “stand out”. The mood that Crane used with the color yellow was usually to describe the excitement that Henry Fleming often felt. The color yellow was often used at the end of the chapter so that the reader would have a mental picture of the last scene while they began to read the next chapter. It often set the color, crane, often, novel, mood, red, describe, stephen, colors, set, scene, gray, yellow, soldiers, sky, reader, picture, men, black, throughout, soldier, mental, henry, even, describing, described, courage, confusion, chapter, blue, battle, badge, another, themselves, sight