; Crane foreshadows the themes of change with the use of color. Through his detailed writing, he colors the war as useless. Further references to color are found throughout the novel, "...the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills (Crane 1)...starring once at the red eyes across the river, he conceived them to be growing larger, as the orbs of a row of dragons advancing (2)...He became like the man who lo
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