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Valerie Williams
Ms. Williams
English I Honors
Just a caution: I found the automatic
outlining function in the Word tool
bar to be hard to use because it
spaced some parts strangely. I would
do it manually.
Each Roman numeral, letter, or
number must have a complete
sentence by it in a sentence outline.
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I.
Crane creates many settings throughout the text.
A.
The soldiers live at an army camp some of the time.
1.
The camp is by the river with the enemy camped on the far hills on the
other side.
2.
They lived in small square brown huts with fireplaces.
a)
The soldiers slept on wide bunks.
b)
Cracker boxes served as furniture.
c)
Rifles hung on pegs on the walls.
d)
Men ate from tin dishes
B.
Henry lived outside of town with his mother before enlisting.
C.
The novel takes place during the American Civil War.
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II.
Crane develops characters with physical and personality
descriptions.
A.
Henry Fleming is the novel’s protagonist who wants to test his
own courage and has immature, romantic ideas about war at the
beginning of the novel.
B.
Henry’s mother doesn’t want him to enlist but makes sure he has
socks and gives him advice when he does joins the army anyway.
III.
Quotes from the text reveal characterization.
A.
“He[Henry] had burned several times to enlist. . .[The battles]
might not be distinctly Homeric, but there seemed to be much glory in
them. . .His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in
color; lurid with breathless deeds” (Ch. 1; 5)
B.
IV.
The following conflicts exist in the novel.
V.
Many quotes reveal elements of Naturalism.
VI.
Many quotes impart ideas about courage and maturity.