For Monday, Sept 26, read Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, chapters 1-8. We are reducing the number of chapters at this stage of the semester to keep everyone caught up with the material. It is necessary for each student to allocate the time needed to complete the assigned readings. Knowing what happens in a given story is a very tiny part of the experience and knowledge gained through the experience of reading–an experience that strengthens your abilities to read and understand more quickly and efficiently.
Refer to the following articles for background information on Melville and his novel that we are reading.
- Biography.com Entry on Herman Melville, http://www.biography.com/people/herman-melville-9405239
- Tom Goldstein, âThe Law; Once Again, âBilly Buddâ is Standing Trial,â The New York Times, June 10, 1988, http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/10/us/the-law-once-again-billy-budd-is-standing-trial.html
- Dana Nichols, âWreck of the Warship that Inspired âBilly Buddâ Discovered Off Mexico,â Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 1987. http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-11/news/mn-13566_1_somers
