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As civil war progress, American writers and poets responded to it by writing novels and poems that portray on the realistic aspect of the war. At about 1865, when the civil war ended, the American realism began to spread that writers abandoned their romantic values of the world which portray romantic heroes and events. One of the most representative novels of the civil war, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane portrays a regular rookie soldier who experiences extreme terror in the war. Instead of depicting how heroic the protagonist is and the glorious victory of the battle, Stephan Crane portray soldier’s one victory of a battle is so insignificant to the overall war effort that realistic portray the cruelty of war and people’s nature fear of death during battle. One of the aspect of Realism writing is the used of common, everyday speech pattern to show how people really talk instead of florid and ostentatious speech. Aside from Realism, naturalism became to come about at the same time. Different from realism, naturalism forces on the philosophical aspect of the world. Realism tends to portray an event and situation where as naturalism shows how human are powerless in controlling their own fate and destinies that everything is determined by environment or genes.