Journal Entry for Stephen Crane’s, An Episode of War Essay

This short piece of American literature is a descriptive prose depicting a scene in the American accomplished War. An unnamed lieutenant is wounded at his right arm piece of music resting with the rest of his troops during an active participation. The baloney enables the readers to take part on the lieutenants perceptions on what is happening and how the battle was shaped and he is a participant or a victim of a battle unknown to him.The battle is fierce and tumultuous it was able to take the clean-handed lives and anything on its way. All of this thinking happened turn the lieutenant passed the line of the battle, while he was in search of the field hospital.At the hospital, the wounded policeman had a brief and unpleasant encounter with a surgeon who is ill-mannered and lied to him, saying that his arm will not be amputated.The story was able to envelop the soft and meek side of an army officer in a few lines of dialogue of having his right arm amputated. In the end, the li eutenant went along with the surgeon for a medical procedure only when end up losing his arm. The army officer felt ashamed when he got home to his family and showing an empty sleeve. He was a victim of a war that could have been avoided and he will not have to resort his arm.