Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

Read The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors."

The Red Badge of Courage is a famous book by Stephen Crane. Here are a few questions for study and discussion.

The Red Badge of Courage is a famous American novel. What happens in this book? And, why is the story so memorable? Test your knowledge about The Red Badge of Courage.

The Red Badge of Courage is a novel about the Civil War, and fictional portrait of a young soldier, Henry Fleming. Here are a few quotes from the novel.

When The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, Stephen Crane was a struggling American writer. He was 23. This book made him famous. Find historical and contextual background material in these books.

Writers have used the Civil War as a backdrop for thier literary writings about American characters. Read "The Red Badge of Courage," and other works.

A coming-of-age story or novel is memorable because the character undergoes adventures and/or inner turmoil in his/her growth and development as a human being. Some characters come to grips with the reality of cruelty in the world--with war, violence, death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues.

Naturalism is an American literary movement. In general, the concept is one in which everything belongs to nature, is "natural." Naturalist writers include: Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Wharton.

I recommend the following titles to maintain fluency and reading level and to encourage independent reading. These are a sampling of the titles that often appear on high-school reading lists for 10th grade (or 11th) American literature study.