Countess And Carlos example essay topic

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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a book based on a young soldier engaging in the civil war. The psychological conflict that he faces throughout the story is both internal and external. The battles are fought in the readers face to show the young soldiers' conflict with himself, other soldiers and the battle itself. With Stephen Cranes amazing power of description the reader becomes engulfed in the battle at hand and feels that the conflicts of the soldiers are becoming their own. The main topic of the book is fear and how it would affect a young man in a bloody war, like The Civil War.

Chapter 12 begins with Carlos walking back to his room from roaming the city, to encounter Joao de Ega in his room. They begin to gossip about everyone they know and Ega mostly wants to know all about what is going on with Carlos. Finally he asks Carlos if there is a room in the house that he can stay in of course Carlos says yes. The story then moves to Sr. Afonso de Maia's office because Ega wishes to pay his respects.

Afonso has gotten much older. Then the story moves to them going to pick up Ega's bags at the Hotel. Where Ega confronts Carlos about the Brazilian that he heard Carlos was having an affair with from Da macao. He then invites Carlos to dinner at the Count and Countess Guareinho's house. At diner the guest, who include Carlos, Ega, D. Maria de Cunha, Sr. Sousa Neto, Count and Countess Guareinho the Baroness de Vim, and a chubby lady who later it is evident is Sousa Neto's wife, are discussing dinner conversation. (Politics, Literature, Love, etc...

) In the beginning of this section it is evident that the Countess and Carlos are or have been having some kind of a relationship because there is mention of letters that were written back and forth between the two and the Countess feels that these letters are dry and short. She finds Carlos anxious and he finds her demanding. The Countess.