Abysmal Family Life Of Working-Class Immigrants In Late-19th Century NYC?

Beginning in the early years of Stephen Crane’s life, he was the last son of thirteen other siblings. Being raised by a Methodist family on both sides, Stephan’s parents focused a lot of their time writing religious articles. He also had two brother’s that were journalist, one working as a reporter. Growing up with several

Immigrants coming over from Europe had not a dime to spare but a heart filled with ambition. In The Jungle, the Chicago stockyards saw its share of discrimination. Immigrants in particular, always having the short end of the stick, faced countless difficulties. Many saw them as ignorant, unsophisticated beings that could only be used for mule labor. They endure agonizing work because they are immigrants and according to the Americans living there, they were below them. They earn wages so low it became difficult not to starve. Jurgis describes the difficulties that came with the intense work. He stated “If one of them be a minute late, he will be docked an hour's pay, and if he be many minutes late, he will be apt to find his brass check turned to the wall, which will send him out to join the hungry mob that waits every morning at the gates of the houses, from six o'clock until nearly half-past eight" (Sinclair 21). If they came late then they were fired. There were no second chances. The managers treat these immigrants not as humans but animals. Immigrants were allowed no sick days and if they were to get injured they would be fired as well, which was not the case for Americans who had been there longer. The injustice done was unbearable and they had to deal with it because they needed any money they could get. There dreams of a life of ease and welfare were crushed by prejudice views. Discrimination based on social class is also seen in The Great Gatsby. What connects Long Island to the bustling city of New York is what Fitzgerald calls the Valley of Ashes. Here is where the poor and penniless men work and live. Just like the immigrants, these lower class people have a much harder path at achieving their American Dream. The Valley of Ashes was where “.. ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys

Yes, Late Nineteenth-Century Immigrants were “Uprooted”. They were uprooted physically and culturally. The immigrants came to America for a better life, since they had a rough time economically and politically in their own homeland. When they got here they had to get used to a whole new place with a different language, religion, culture and even different government. There were a lot of industries here, but all paid very small wage and a lot of the American citizens didn’t want them, they wanted a higher wage instead. The immigrants came in and took all jobs, even the ones that paid little wage. All these immigrants came from different backgrounds, therefore, getting used to American traditions was very hard for them. Some could not even continue

In the novel "Saints at the River" Ron Rash shows the reader that everyone should be at peace. Maggie a photographer gets chosen to go back to her childhood town to find out what happened with the 12 year old that drowned in the river. It has been ten years before Maggie's arrival she starts to recognize everyone in town, but later it gets awkward when she has to face her father because she does not get along with him. As things progress the town people come to a realization if it was all worth it when they lose randy one of the community divers. After reading the novel Maggie shows first her love, compassion and finally demonstrates forgiveness for her father.

This family comes together in a time when they all need it. Phillip at one point tells Judd he’s on his side and has his back no what the situation is. Then every time Judd and Wendy meet on the roof to talk they are creating a turning point during a bad time. It can be see that each brother, sister, brother, brother, and/or mother, child moment is a growing point where something/someone else is thinking and acting different. The Altman family displays resilience by walking away at the end and assuring each other that they have their backs.

The key aspect that made Crane’s approach to writing fresh was the way he chose to focus on the genuine thoughts and feelings that a soldier experiences in battle. Whereas most war books or stories focus on the heroics and fame of fighting in battle, Crane wrote in such a realistic way that it made war seem cold. Also, he didn’t put an emphasis on talking about the events that took place in battles. Rather than talking about bravery and courage, he talked about the fear and terror that was felt by a soldier being in battle. He presented a character struggling with the thought of being a coward and asking himself if it was possible for him to become a hero.

People seldom know that Stephen Crane actually grew up with a mother and father that each wrote religious articles, let alone that two of his brothers were writers for a newspaper. This was important in Crane’s life as his upbringing involved a literary background, leading to

The novel by Stephen Crane follows the life of Maggie Johnson, a young tenement dweller, and her family from a young age to her death as a young woman. It seemed important to Crane to “... make things happen from the very beginning of the story, one thing leading to another until tragic fate is met” (Woods 13). She is described as having "blossomed in a mud puddle" (Crane 16), and this seems like an adequate description. Maggie is unlike the rest of the people around her, as she is kind and gentle, and dreams of something else for herself. Most of those in her life are violent alcoholics, yet she got a "job in a sweat shop [sic] where she toils away like a good girl, dreaming of a better life" (Finley 6). Despite this attempt to do good,

only created poetry, but also many novels, short stories, sketches, and letters during his twenty-nine years of life. A flawless ironist, Crane was neither a pessimist nor an optimist; he was, rather, a meliorist who believed that improvement was conceivable. He was very creactive and had meaning behind his writings as seen in the following sentences. Crane believed in progress, some of his best writings encapsulated the self-defeating perversity-and more often the apathy-through which individuals cause death as seen in, "The Upturned Face". Isolation is found in "The Blue Hotel". Solitude is found in, "A Duel Between an Alarm Clock and a Suicidal

In time it became evident that Crane had found the style of writing that suited him best. He enjoyed portraying events in the true, bare, manner in which they occurred. Instead of embellishing accounts to make them seem more enjoyable to the reader, Crane preferred to include the gritty details that many considered indecent, gritty, and unnecessary. While other authors where expanding on styles of writing such as romanticism, Crane took a twisted advance towards creating stories

Not only does the way the dialog is used help establish the voice of the characters, but it also reveals the position Maggie and her family have in life. The description of the story by Crane shows that during the time period, there are individuals who are well spoken and may actually have the ability to change their social positions. Someone who comes from a lower social sphere may be able to fit in with a higher one if they can perhaps play the part, or offer something of value that earns them such a move. Maggie and the other characters in Crane's “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,” however, do not have such this ability. They are born into lives from which there is no escape. Not only are they part of the poorer social sphere, but they are also poor in both speech and education. Because of this, they do not have the competency to participate in any social sphere but the

In a small urban apartment in the heart of Manhattan dwelt a small, respectable family that consisted of a laboring father, a devout mother, and an adoring son. All of them hustling and bustling in the business of life. The father, Conner Walton, a relatively older man with small patches of well worn grey hair around his leathery lips and ears, worked at an enormous storage house; full of musty boxes of trinkets and tools to supply to the locals. The mother was ambitious and fiery. Older, like her beloved husband, Kim Walton took it easier in her age. She stayed in the house and cleaned, took care of their child, and apartment alike. The son, Jeffrey Walton, a bright young boy with lots of potential, attended a normal grade school, had few

Maggie: A Girl of the Street by Stephen Crane is a short novel about a family whose lived in the the seamier side of urban New York where there was many people fighting for civil rights during the 1800s. Maggie appears as a naïve and uneducated girl in the beginning of the novel and even though she is the oldest sibling in her household but women did not have the right to led the businesses. Toward the end of the novel, she was attracted by a man in suit who is her brother jimmie’s friend named Pete and she even runs away from home with him. It shown Maggie believed that Pete could afford a better life to her but turns out what the preacher had said to her, “You are damned” (10). The man she used to adore of abandon her and it let her to feel

Stephen Crane, was a leading American author of the Realist school, who enjoyed both popular success and critical acclaim. Being the youngest of fourteen children, Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871. His father Jonathan Crane was a Methodist minister, who died suddenly when Crane was only 9 years old. Leaving his mother Mary Crane, who was a devout social activist at the time, to support the family. By working for the church and writing religious journals, Mary Crane raised her son in the most idealistic atmosphere of evangelical reformism. Two years after her husbands death, in 1892, only seven of Mary Crane’s children were still living. Throughout his childhood Crane became very familiar with death.