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The Red Badge of Courage (Cliffs Notes)

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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.

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

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.

I've read the Red Bagde of Courage by Stephen Crane and I believe it is a great book geared towards a specific group of peole. It's not for your adverage highschooler. What will they get out of it? For a generation who knows nothing for war and couldn't care in the least bit, it's time to change with the times. What your father and grandfather read in school probably won't have the same effect on you. Grant it, it was well written, however, I thought this book was extremely boring. But, what do you expect from a generation who grew up spoon fed by tv and computers and the everyday visual stimulation experienced could last a person who was part of this time(when the book was set) a lifetime.

i am a junior in high school and i do not reccomend this book to anyone

I thought the book was soooo-> boaring it was really hard for me to understand it is for a higher grade level than I am in but my U.S.Cultures teacher made us read it and write a four page report on it. I thought it was the dumbest book I have ever read.

I thought that the book had excellent description and imagry, but it lacked a story. The whole book was Henry wondering if he would run from a battle and weither or not anyone would notice his cowardice. I think that Crane's talent would be better utilized in poetry. This book was a big waste of his time.

well, i had a list of books to pick to read for a project in AP american history, and i picked this book for it being the shortest. Big mistake. I could have finished a book twice its size in the same time, for i couldnt read it for ore than 30 minutes straight because i was so bored. The author wasted so much time with description, and the plot was pointless. Well, i would not recommend this book to anyone in high school.

The author of this book spends sometimes will spend up to three paragraphs, describing something as insignificant as how the sunlight looks coming though his tent. This was an unuasually short book, and it seems to me that the book would have been 30 pages at a maximum if he did not go into such great mind numbing detail. I am in an 11th grade English class, and this book did not have difficult vocabulary, rather just details that could send a person to insanity. This might have been a great book for its time, but people must understand that kids these days do not have such a great interest in what goes on in a persons mind, while fleeing from a battle. I would not reccomend this book to anyone I know, in fact, i would have stopped reading it about 40 pages in to it, if I was not required to read it by my teacher.

The book The Red Badge of Courage wasn't with out its points. For example in my history of reading civil war novels, they tend to focus on the politics of the war more then the war it self. This book was more about the fighting and what a man went through in the battles. But what the book gained in action it lost in the long winded description. Also personally the version i had to read contained very little letters, and when i'm nearly asleep from the subject matter those little letters would blur together and really knock me out. It had what i refer to as dictionary print and i think all people out there can relate.
The truth is i really didn't read a whole lot of this book becuase i could get about 7 or 8 pages down before i would start sleeping and the parts i did read were difficult to understand so i would recomend cliff notes for this particular book. All together i gave it 2 stars, So i hope who ever may read this enjoys it more then i did.
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