Summary: The Red Badge Of Courage By Stephen Crane

William Valentine

Mrs. Moore

English II p.4

25 May 2018

Creative Title Section 1: Intro (Hook/Interest Grabber and Historical Context) “Capturing every leaf on every tree is a time-consuming and, some would say, thankless task” - Anonymous. The new depictions in Realism gave new perspectives and represented a more common demographic. In America, tensions heightened between the North and South over the abolition of slavery. The Compromise of 1850 sat in the heart of realism Realism and started to give more equality and abolish slave trade in certain regions

(Philosophical Context)

Realism was an art movement that rejected he emotional and extraneous themes of Romanticism. Artists and writers began to explore the reality of everyday life. A

His Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) realistically depicts the psychological complexities of battlefield emotion and has become a literary classic.. He died at the age of 28 on June 5, 1900 in Germany.

Connection to Literary Movement- Produced works that have been credited with establishing the foundations of modern American naturalism and realism. His book Maggie A compassionate story of an innocent and abused girl's descent into prostitution and her eventual suicide, Maggie was initially rejected by several publishers who feared that Crane's description of slum life would shock readers.

Analysis of Work- Produced works that have been credited with establishing the foundations of modern American naturalism and realism. His Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) realistically depicts the psychological complexities of battlefield emotion and has become a literary classic. He is also known for authoring Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Section 4: Artist 3 Mark Twain

Bio Info- Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the name Mark Twain. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding,

Prior to this time novels only depicted the higher classes. Twain was notable for his faithful reproduction of the native dialect of a specific population and their vocabulary. In doing this, Twain’s works were extremely unique and controversial. Twain was a trendsetter in focusing on middle and lower class characters. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most frequently banned books in the public school system. It’s no doubt that certain language in the book is indeed offensive; however Twain was only representing honest speech from that time period. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was in all reality an astounding leap forward in racial awareness. For the first time ever you have a freed slave, Jim, who is as fully realized a character as Tom or Huck. Until this story, no one of such low class had ever been the main focus of any story. Jim was not only portrayed as a slave, but as a human being with the same fears, dreams, feelings, and emotions as any other person on earth. Jim was a likeable character as well. Although Twain was indeed part of the Realist Movement, you could argue that he was in a class or movement all of his