stephen crane
...Hunter and his work on the Viet Nam War, Time to Hunt, provide superb examples of these men’s powerful and dynamic writing skills, and a means for comparison and contrast of these two men of prose. The span of one hundred years between the works of Crane and Hunter only proves that the art of producing a compelling story cannot be limited by the parameters of time. Capturing the human emotion and experiences of war in a realistic narrative, removes the limits of the era’s specific technology of war making. True genius is displayed in these works in the fact that the fears, imaginings, camaraderie, hate, cowardice, heroism, and introspection found in Crane’s, The Red Badge of Courage, (Crane 1-170) can be likewise traced in Hunter’s, Time to Hunt (Hunter 1-596). The reason is clear. Man has not changed despite war’s hideous affects. Crane attended college—“first Lafayette, then Syracuse University (in New York)—he was, however, not a good student. Baseball was his chief interest. He failed to realize his ambition to be a catcher with the New York Giants but this did not reconcile him to academic pursuits. Before he was nineteen he left college and went to New York, determined to be a writer. (Crane, Reader’s Supplement 2) Crane loosely established himself as a ...