The Red Badge Of Courage By Stephen Crane

The novella paper is due this Sunday, 4/22 by 11:59pm. I’m looking for at least five full pages but no more than seven (not including works cited page). Most of the quotes will be from your novella with a focus or theme of your choice. Every body paragraph should have at least three quotes from your novella. Please don’t summarize your book. This is not a book report: it’s a literary analysis. Also, please quote from the three sources you found either from print or from the library databases (literature resource center, ebsco, etc.). Please make sure your three sources have an author. If not, find a new source.

Refine your focus for the novella project. Was there something (a theme, a thread) in the novel that appealed to you, moved you, frustrated you? Find that focus and then begin the research process. There are all sorts of topics or issues that are part of the narrative. Find something you’re interested in, and begin to see what’s out there using either the library online databases (EBSCO, Proquest, etc.) or print material like books or periodicals from the local library. You may not use general internet sources.

Develop that focus or angle. Think about your angle: what approach are you going to take? I’d like to see you think hard about possible approaches to the novel, what interested you, how you might use sources, etc. Were there parts of the novella that you related to on a personal level? Were there characters that you have a particularly strong feeling about? What theme or themes did you see?

I’m giving you a good amount of freedom in approach. That can be good for some, and it can be bad for others. If you’re feeling stuck, perhaps a critical contention approach might be a good one. Take a look in the databases and see what critics or reviewers say about your novella. Find something about the discussion of the work where there’s a argument, pick a side, and use book to back up your view. This is a fairly safe approach.

There are many other approaches you can take. Just make sure it’s your own approach. Regurgitating things you read from websites is a bad idea. Taking movies you’ve watched, things you’ve read, experiences you’ve had and finding relationships to the novella–themes, ideas, connections–I’m interested in any of that.

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