Dec 26, 2009

The Red Badge of Courage | Ideas for Group Discussions

The Red Badge of Courage has long been ranked as an American classic and is standard fare in high school and college literature courses. This means that it is possible that many members of a discussion group will not only have read the book, but will have discussed it in the classroom. Thus, presenting the book as something fresh would be important for a discussion group. Most classroom discussions are likely to have emphasized the book's many "literary" qualities, such as its symbolism or its impressionistic use of colors; less likely to have been discussed is the novel's...