Red badge of having read Red Badge of Courage.

By Em | Published: September 28, 2010

Merit badge: the color red

Ha ha HA ha HAHA ha haha ha… Well, it amused me, anyway.

Actually, this was the very first reading badge I made, but I showed great self-restraint and waited to post it. It goes up today because it is Banned Books Week, and The Red Badge of Courage has been a banned book.

Want to talk about your favorite banned book this week? Consider doing it on Thursday, when a whole lot of other people will be doing the same thing. You can even sign up to participate via the linky thing at the end of Tahereh’s post.

The “Red badge of having read Red Badge of Courage” is part of the merit badges for readers series. The badge may be posted on your site or blog. Tell us why you’ve earned (or will never earn) it in the comments.

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6 Comments

  1. anwa
    Posted September 28, 2010 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

    Awwww…. well, baby steps, baby steps. And the badges have come a long way.
    I, unfortunately, do not merit this badge. Perhaps if there was a Green Badge for not having read the Red Badge of Courage?

  2. Hanna C. Howard
    Posted September 29, 2010 at 10:27 pm | Permalink

    I’ll admit it. I thought it was funny.

  3. Em
    Posted September 29, 2010 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    See, guys? Hanna thinks I’m funny.
    ;)

  4. Bethany
    Posted September 29, 2010 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

    *SNERK* Very nice! I’ll award this to myself twice, once for having read it, and once for having watched a one-man performance of it on a high-school field trip. ; )

    BTW, what insane idiot wanted to ban Red Badge of Courage????

  5. Em
    Posted October 1, 2010 at 1:37 am | Permalink

    @Bethany: A Florida superintendent named Leonard Hall, who was apparently quite the fan of book-banning.

    The controversy over censorship erupted last week when County School Superintendent Leonard Hall announced a three-tier book classification system.

    The first category consists of works considered to contain no vulgarity or explicit sex. The second included books with a ‘’sprinkling” of vulgarity.

    The 64 books in the third group, deemed to have ”a lot of vulgarity” and the curse ”goddamn,” were placed off-limits to classroom discussion.

    Those works included Shakespeare’s ”Twelfth Night” and ”Merchant of Venice,” and the novels ”The Old Man and the Sea,” ”Mister Roberts,” ”Fahrenheit 451,” ”The Great Gatsby,” ”The Red Badge of Courage,” and dozens of other classics.

    Read the rest of the article here. (Honestly, it’s been over 23 years since that was reported, and the phrase “announced a three-tier book classification system” is still giving me the shivers.)

  6. Bethany
    Posted October 17, 2010 at 1:35 am | Permalink

    @Em: Clearly, I have not been keeping up with my banned books.

    In other news: I weep for the human race.

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