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OBJECTIVES:•DEFINE VOCABULARY WORDS FROM UNIT ONE.•CONNECT CRANE’S L IFE TO HIS WORK.•EVALUATE THE TEXT AS AN EXAMPLE OF REALISM.•ANALYZE THE DEVICES CRANE USES TO CONSTRUCT THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Friday, September 7th
1. When you come in, take a vocabulary book off of the front table.
2. Make sure your put your name in your book.
3. Place your writing assignment on the stool.
Today’s Activities:
Vocabulary Unit One Book exercises due on Wednesday, 9/12 Quiz on Thursday, 9/13
Start background information and literary analysis of The Red Badge of Courage
Get out your notebooksLabel this page The Red Badge of CourageListen carefully as give the directions . . .
“A Man Said to the Universe”Poem from War is Kind & Other Lines by Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
In your notes, create a paraphrase of this poem.
Why is it important for the man to state that he “exist[s]”? How is that declaration an essential part of our lives? Think about the “big” questions people have about life.
Use three adjectives to describe nature’s response to the man’s statement.
What point is Crane making with this poem?
Our AuthorBorn in 1871 in Newark, New JerseySon of a Methodist ministerDid not embrace the religion, but
was affected by Christian ideasMost notably, he was aware of the
insignificance of human beings in the universe and the guilt and fear that the thought of sin could inspire
Interested in moral issues focused on personal responsibility, conscience, and life as a spiritual journey
Realism“I decided that the nearer a writer gets to life, the greater
he becomes as an artist, and most of my prose writings have been toward the goal partially described by that misunderstood and abused word, realism.”
– Stephen Crane
Worked part-time as a journalist and explored slums and police courts and fraternized with the poor, prostitutes, and homeless
Lost his reputation, however, for socializing with and defending prostituteshttp://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F
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Wanted to emphasize “truth and nature” in his writing Had one law while writing: “be true, not to the objective
reality, but to the objective reality as the author sees it.”
The Novel & Realism Many readers were impressed by RBC’s
unflinchingly honest portrayal of war (even though Crane had never seen a battle, readers insisted he must be a Civil War veteran)
Most war novels by American writers at the time were simply adventure stories or romance
Crane focused on the violence and confusion of the battlefield AND the effects of war on the human mind
Crane said The Red Badge of Courage is a “psychological portrayal of fear.”
BUT is it a war novel after all?
The Novel and ImpressionismA term borrowed from the artsHighly personal way of seeingWriter shows the objects or events as they
seem or feel to an individual at a precise moment in time
Emphasized the “drama of thought” rather than action
Radically new style of writing
The Novel’s SettingUnnamed battleNever mentions the Civil WarDevote relatively little space to the physical
settingMany critics believe the real setting of the
novel is Henry Fleming’s mind
My Novel QuestionsWhat is nature’s role in this novel? What
does Henry want nature’s role to be?To what extent is Henry self-aware? How
does his consciousness change throughout the novel?
With what question(s) does Henry struggle?How does Crane present Henry? Why?Is this a Civil War novel? Is it anti-war? Pro-
war?What is the ultimate irony (presented in the
novel) in our quest to find a place in the universe?
How to Read Like an English Teacher
Guide for close readingStyleToneThemeDictionPOVTimeSettingMotifsSymbolsMood