The Red Badge of Courage (Cliffs Notes) [Paperback]

Patrick J. Salerno (Author)

Book Description

Series: Cliffsnotes Literature Guides | Publication Date: June 13, 2000

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

Stephen Crane wrote the first draft of The Red Badge of Courage in only ten days. This CliffsNotes supplement carries you along as the story of a young boy named Henry Fleming faces his first battle — not only in war but with his own fear, pride, and cowardice — unfolds. It still remains as one of the best novels about the American Civil War.

This study guide carefully walks you through every step of Henry’s ordeal by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the novel. You'll also explore the life and background of the author and gain insight into how he came to write The Red Badge of Courage. Other features that help you study include

• A character map to highlight the relationships between characters
• Glossaries after each chapter to define new and unfamiliar terms
• Critical essays covering topics like figurative language and the structure of the novel
• A review section that tests your knowledge
• A Resource Center with books and Web sites for more study

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About the Author

Patrick Salerno has worked as a teacher of language, literature, and composition, and as a curriculum developer in the field of English and language arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: Cliffs Notes; 1 edition (June 13, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764585797
• ISBN-13: 978-0764585791
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book! The message is extremly important., October 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: CliffsNotes The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)

This book is one that i picked to read for 11th grade english. I too, picked it because it was short, however it was the BEST book i have ever had to read. Henry Fleming struggles with the same day to day struggles that we teenagers do, confusion, happiness, the feeling that we are right, the feelign we are wrong. Life is a rollercoaster when you are young and Henry has to deal with this and being invovled in the civil war. Some people may be looking for an easy way out, and will say this book was boring and hard to understand,(its not, esp. if your in an ap class or have any brains at all) but it is those people who will never get the full meaning of this book. I recomend it to any student and any person.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Summarization of Civil war classic novel, October 6, 1998

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This review is from: CliffsNotes The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)

This review book was adequate. It did it's job. It's sole purpose is to summarize Crane's novel about the Civil war. In reading more about Crane, we learn that he was an American novelist and poet who was known for.... "his pessimistic and often brutal portrayals of the human condition, but his stark realism is relieved by charm and sympathetic understanding of character"......... Although this review book does summarize each chapter (I read each chapter of the review book before I subsequently read each chapter of the book, so I knew what to expect) it cannot do justice NOR take the place of reading the actual words of Crane. His book is magnificent and his skill at manipulating words is extraordinary. I read and reread savoring the descriptiveness of each sentence. His genius is that he had never experienced military service or the ordeals of combat which he so wonderfully describes here. His experience as a correspondent during the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 are perhaps the basis for his knowledge about the terrors which face a soldier. Please read each and every sentence and study them intently. They are so perfect in their construction that I could ably picture all the scenes he described. I am curious now to view a film (which I heard was made of this book). This review book is good, but don't avoid reading the actual book itself, because you will have missed a great experience. Kathryn in New York City

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Red Badge of Courage Review, June 3, 2000

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This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Cliffs Notes) (Paperback)

These Cliff Notes on The Red Badge of Courage were a great help on a project I had to do for school. I didn't have much time and the project was worth a lot of points. With this at hand, I finished the report with all the qualifications, topics and details I needed. If you're in a hurry to read this book or you don't understand it well, get this book.