Red Badge Youth of Courage and Today's YouthAs a young member of today's society , I am not afraid of death. If I feared death, I would be “dead”. There are so many causes of death today, like car accidents, shootings, drugs, and disease, that if I were constantly afraid of all of these, I wouldn't be able to leave my own backyard. Therefore, I refuse to believe that death will happen to me. In the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, the youth of the 19th century, like the youth of today, is not afraid of death, but his reasoning is different, which is why he welcomes death. The average young person today is not afraid of death. death because it seems to happen to other people. Death is far away. Every day we hear about people being killed in this or drowned in that, but it never happens to anyone we know. If someone we know dies, we are shocked and forced to reconsider our lives because, for a moment, we realize that we could die too. Unlike us, the kid in The Red Badge of Courage knows death firsthand, and he's not afraid. When the youth was young, his father died. Throughout the novel, young people fight in the bloodiest war on American soil and in the war that caused the most casualties per capita of all American wars. He saw dead bodies and walked with the dying. He was trying to help one of his injured friends when he died convulsively. Earlier in his experiences, especially when he first encountered combat, he was extremely afraid of death, so afraid that he ran away from combat. During the passage, and later in the novel, he knows that he could die at any moment but he has no apprehension. When death strikes a loved one, I find it unfair. "Why," I ask, "did Grandma have to die? She was such a kind old woman. Why couldn't a tramp have died instead?" I didn't want her to die and I feel like she didn't deserve to die. Similarly, young people feel that death is unfair, but in the opposite way. He wishes that death does not fall on the Unknown Soldier, but on him. Like us, he sees death as a consequence of luck and as being unjust, but unlike us, during this passage, he thinks that death is luck...