Dear Mrs. Zrihen,
I am still reading The Red badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. It is an historical fiction novel set during the American Civil War. Here is a passage from the book from page 238:
“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape change from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from the long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army’s feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile campfires set in the brows of distant hills.
Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment banner-like. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalry-man, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.”
I picked this passage because I started to understand what was going on a little bit more. This passage is significant to the book because without it, it would be harder to understand why the author chose the title he did.
My two before reading strategies were first to skim and scan for text features and second, to remember what I had read last time. My two during reading strategies were to one, to understand all vocabulary, and two, imply stuff as I read. My two after reading strategies were one, to relate what I had read to what I had read last time, and two, prepare for Reader’s Journal.
The genre of this book is historical fiction. The characteristics of the genre are realistic fiction set during an historical period. The setting of the story is in different locations during the American Civil War. The tone of the book is serious and the mood is serious also. The moral of the story I haven’t gotten to yet.
The point of view is third person because it uses words like he, she, and they. The pattern of organization is climatic order because the story goes from exposition to rising action to climax. Then it goes from climax down to resolution.
The author’s purpose is to share a good story about the Civil War. The author’s perspective is objective because he knows that the story never happened and is not true.
I would rate this book three out of ten because I didn’t like the way it was written and how there was olden day talk in it. I would not recommend this book because you may not understand it.
Sincerely,
Michael Heskiel
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