Monster Book Comments #3 Due by midnight Wednesday 1/7Three sections
* Label your response to this section 3a
Briefly explain any changes in the monsters, beast, or demon since your first comment. How are the changes in the monster, in the monster's experiences, or in the monster's situation significant? (A paragraph: 7+ sentences.) I'm not looking for plot summary; I'm looking for connections to and development of the monster theme. Along the way convince me that you understand how the monster's situation has developed since "Comments #2" which were due before the holiday break.
*Label your response to this section 3b
Respond to someone else's comment about the book. If no one else is reading your book then compare your thoughts about your monster to someone else's thoughts about the monster in her or his book. Write at least seven sentences.
*Label your response to this section 3c
Write another journal entry as if you were the monster of the book. Write in the monster's voice about the monster's experiences and situation. Convince me that you understand the monster's situation and feelings about the situation. Use at least three details from the last section you have read. Mark the details (1), (2), (3). Write at least seven sentences.
Monster Book Comments #2 Due by midnight Wednesday 12/11
Three sections
* Label your response to this section 2a
Briefly explain any changes in the monsters, beast, or demon since your first comment. How are the changes in the monster, in the monster's experiences, or in the monster's situation significant? (A paragraph: 7+ sentences.) I'm not looking for plot summary; I'm looking for connections to and development of the monster theme.
*Label your response to this section 2b
Respond to someone else's comment about the book. If no one else is reading your book then compare your thoughts about your monster to someone else's thoughts about the monster in her or his book. (A paragraph.)
*Label your response to this section 2c
Write a journal entry as if you were the monster of the book. Write in the monster's voice about the monster's experiences and situation. (A paragraph.)
Monster Book Comments #1 (300+ words) Due by midnight Wednesday (12/10)
Using the definitions of “monster,” “beast,” and/or “demon,” explore how the theme of monstrousness is developed over the first 100+ pages of the book you have been reading.
You might begin by showing how a character or entity fits a particular definition or set of definitions. But do not limit yourself to proving that so-and-so is a monster. Also, do not merely summarize all of the “monstrous” or “beastly” or “demonic” events in the book. That is plot summary. Instead, write an exploratory, explanatory, expository essay.
Show how the author explores ideas about monsters. Here are some possibilities:
- physical monstrousness can be used as a (false?) projection of man(un)kind’s internal monstrousness,
- external beauty (or success, or noble words, or other facades) can mask monstrosity,
- humanity’s inner nature can be seen as naturally and unavoidably “beastly,”
- our intellect (theory-making, pattern-making, meaning-making, civilization-building) can be seen as the source of monstrousness,
- fictional monsters can be interpreted as projections of human fears (about scientific or other progress, about our own inner desires, about nature’s senselessness, about the fragility of our existence, etc.),
- monsters can be used as a way of defining what is human (humane) and what is not-human (inhumane, beastly),
- overcoming monsters (or monstrousness) can be used as a way of defining human heroism, nobility, and even goodness,
- monsters (or monstrous behavior) can be used to explore the issue of nature (innate characteristics that humans are born with) versus nurture (learned behavior): is the monster born or made?,
- monsters can be used as a way to explore the effects of isolation, rejection, exclusion, etc.,
- monsters can be used as a way of exploring whether good and evil are absolute or whether they are only a matter of perception (Hamlet says, “nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so,”
- and on and on and on…
8 comments:
The monster is not a person in this book but an event. The monster is war. War doesn't have gross features or says obscene things it just turns people insane. At the beginning of the book Henry is excited to join the war cause because to him being in the war is like a sign of rebellion for the modern day teenager.He will learn that war is not all that it is cracked up to be. After Henry enlists in the army he talks to his mom and she tells him that he can't take out the whole army by himself, that she'll knit him socks to keep him warm, and that god will show Henry his fate very soon. This is not the type of response that henry was looking for, he was looking for more of warm welcoming feeling to this whole situation.He would feel the wrath of the beast as the first battle approached and some of the more battle tested soldiers would tell stories of how it is not all fun and games when you're life is on line out on the battle field. They would tell the inexperienced soldiers of how if one man ran the rest would run but if one man would fight the rest would follow suit and fight alongside their brother. This would prove troublesome to young Henry as he knew that it was immenient
the red badge of courage is a book about the civil war and a young boys perspective of war. In the book henry decides to enlist. In the begining he is happy about his decision but he soon has second thoughts. He goes to his mom for reasurance and she shoots him down she says she would make him socks. Later on henry is confronted with is first battle the older more experienced veterans tell him stories of how war realy work that there isn't glory dieing there jest pain and suffuring.
In the Red badge of courage the monster is not a human or beast it is war. war is the beast because it separates families and causes many men to die. This particular war is the civil war. War is also very deceptive because at first henry is exited to join the war but when he sees what it is really like he doesn't like it. and the more experienced soldiers tell him stories about things that they have seen in the war, some of these frighten Henry.
The monster has changed quite a bit since the last we have seen it. The monster now intends on being the conscience of the young lad Henry. He has ran away from the beast and now has to face the facts that he will need to face the reality of his true fears. Henry is afraid of failure and that is the exact thing that war brings failure. Henry would also consider the older more experienced soldiers as providers to the monster and feed it blood and guts. The monster’s minians would be all the soldiers who help bring it murder.
In my opinion the monster doesn’t change war is still war but the monster does change Henry. In my reading I found that Henry doesn’t really know what to do it seems like he is sort of lost and is jest getting better acquainted with the harsh realities of war.
2B
War being the monster in the red bed of courage dosen't realy change. it countinues taking lives and troumatizing men. the only new thing it has caused is that it made henry become a temporary diseter and in the eyes of his peers a coward.
3B
responding to Ryans F's 2b comment. i disagree with his statement the monster has become henry's conscience. i still belieave that war is still the monster becouse it is war that made him leave, it is war that is killing people. but i do agree in that henry will have to face his fears being war. also i kind of agree with the experienced soldiers being providers or servants of the war becouse they are the ones who are realy doing the killing but i also think that they are victims too.
The monster from red badge of courage never really changes. The character henry is instead warped and changed by the monster. In my opinion the war is still the monster but i don't think that is the main idea the author is getting at i think agreeing with Ryan that there are monsters inside henry “his conscience” but the changes they cause is the idea the author is expressing.
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