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Title: The Red Badge of Courage: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Stephen Crane, Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, E. Hudson Long, Donald Pizer ISBN: 0-393-04435-1 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1977 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (238 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book about the Civil War...
Comment: The novel, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, is a book full of uncertainty. Means the reader is never sure what the main character is going to do next in the story. The reader never knows how anyone will act from one moment to the next. This gives the whole novel a certain suspense. The story is about a young enlisted soldier named Henry Fleming who goes off to war as a naive boy and returns as a man. It shows the true side of life, because Henry is acting like most young soldiers do in times of war; Henry feels guilty for running away as the battle began, but he just did what his heart told him to do. Stephan Crane wants to show the reader how bad war is, and the message he prevails is very knowledgeable. The whole story is very well written and the reader has no problem understanding what is going on. The book is rich in sensory details and poetic language. I believe, "The Red Badge", to be one of the most real accounts of Civil War I have read. I would say it is definitely one of the great pieces of American literature and I really have to give this book 5 stars for its perfection.
I just want to add that English isn't my first language and I didn't have any trouble reading this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Red Badge of Boredom
Comment: A Review by Taylor
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about young Henry Flemming, who joins the Union Army during the Civil War. He thought he would join the army, prove his courage and manhood, and return home honorably. But from the start of his first battle, he is confronted with all of his fears and inner conflicts. This book is mainly about the transformation Henry goes through, his courage and cowardice, his pride and self-pity as he fights in this country's bloodiest conflict of all time.
In my opinion, this book is horrible and extremely overrated. Crane usually identifies the characters using characteristics such as the youth, the tall soldier, and the bearded officer, which makes it difficult to follow and understand at times. The dialogue was also very difficult to understand. Crane really failed at his attempt to write dialogue in the way people talk, often overdoing accents. One example is in the twelfth chapter where a soldier said, "Thunder, I wish we was sure 'a findin' our reg'ments t'night. It's goin' t' be long huntin'. But I guess we kin do it." Dialogue like this is very common in the book and it makes it difficult to comprehend and take in. I sometimes had to stop and read a paragraph over again to understand what the person was saying. The One thing that I liked about the book is Crane's descriptions and metaphors. A good example of this is when he wrote, "The ground was cluttered with vines and bushes, and the trees grew close and spread out like bouquets...The creepers, catching against his legs, cried out harshly as their sprays were torn from the barks of trees." I generally liked his writing style, though I recall numerous times when his descriptions were rather dull and difficult to understand.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone really. Unless you really like Civil War books or you are looking for something written in an interesting and different way, don't waste your time and/or money on this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Impressive accomplishment
Comment: For a man who wrote the book in his early twenties, never went to war, and died at the age of 28, Crane did an impressive job of recreating the average soldier's experience in the Civil War.
I have only just recently begun to read on the Civil War and its personalities, starting with Selby Foote's "Civil War Narrative," with "Battle Cry of Freedom," and "The Last Full Measure" (about the Minnesota First Volunteers). From that meager background however, I found Crane's work phenomenal. The unrealistic view of war expressed by the protagonist, his urgent desire to join in the effort to "gain in the glory" before it was all over, his fear that he would not measure up when the time came, even his disgust over the conditions of camp life and the apparent ineptitudes of his superiors were as though they had been harvested from the diaries of the Civil War veterans used as resources by modern historians.
I had read the Red Badge of Courage in high school as part of American Literature, but decided to read it again as part of my review of Civil War literature. In school we tended to focus on the narrative as a craft, looking at color words, meaning of words in context, creation of character, etc. Certainly in this perspective, the work is exemplray. One of the more vivid passages describes the youth in the presence of a corpse of a fellow soldier in an arbored area after he has fled the battle field. The tight, concise style and careful choice of words carries the main character from braggadocio to cowardice, from flight to fearless valour, from novice to veteran in under 200 pages. Unforgettable.
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