Relishing the Ambrosia of Hope in Stephen Crane´s Bowery in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Marie was a showy Christian and only practiced her religion on Sundays. That is when she dressed up in all her diamonds, silks, and lace and went to her fashionable church and acted very religious. She was very pious on Sundays. (Kindle Edition, 2752) When Miss Ophelia asked St Clare if he is going to church, he replies with a no and Marie interjects with, “I do ever wish St Clare would go to church, but he hasn’t a particle of religion about him. It really isn’t respectable.” (Kindle Edition, 2767) As if because she was going to church, she was any more of a Christian than he. It is clear she only went because of how good it made her look. It is also clear that she went to church to listen to a preacher that bends words to fit her worldly society and makes slavery seem right by talking about seasons and how it is appropriate that some people be high and others be low. It never hurts to listen to a preacher that is of the same opinion regarding controversial subjects as you. She may not be so religious if she went to one of those horrible shouting Methodists churches, where she would likely hear some truth regarding God’s word and the true evil that was slavery. It would be better for her to be more like Missy Cassie, who didn’t proclaim to be a Christian at all, than a fake like she was.

As a young mom, Mary had days in which she felt overwhelmed she enjoyed “partying, dancing, and being noticed by men-and noticing them back - much to the chagrin of her family, friends who ended watching the boys so many nights”(Moore 19). This contrasts Joy’s choice to leave her children with family and friends because she on the other hand had to work. Her absence in her children’s life did not transmit nurture, but absent mindedness instead. Joy also “knew what her older son was into but didn’t think there was anything she could do for him now. She hoped that Wes would be different” (Moore 71).

Have we ever considered the consequences of a less visible, less striking abomination, yet the worst of all, for those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly faces

We begin to define the line between good and evil and the way in which it can corrupt human beings. The message portrayed that evil and the misuse of power is an ongoing matter, one in which could affect anyone and is partially an involuntary act – the evil animalistic behaviour becomes engraved into minds; like Goeth.

The floors, the wooden stairwells, the roof, the ceilings and the wooden partitions all came down. However, the greatest damage was the loss of life. The authors make the reader relive one of the most horrific nightmares, the death of the innocent. Every story of the death of a child is a tragedy, but what makes this one particularly sad is that the disaster occurred in a place where parents and the society assumed that the children were safe. The authors say, “When parents sent their children off to learn in such structures, they usually did so without a second thought to safety, assured by routine that their youngsters would return home safely at the end

* Innocent Child Voice: Ethos is appealed through this ‘innocent child voice’ which is uncorrupted and honest. Creates a sense of innocence and truth which is desperate to be heard. Develops a sympathetic appeal and demands the audience’s attention.

“[E]nvironment is a tremendous thing in the world, and frequently shapes lives regardless.” (“Although it’s origins…”) Stephen Crane was influenced to write his 1893 novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, as a result of his religious family, the secrecy to publish a novel that reveals the reality and impurity of the real world and from the impact of needy, urban landscapes that ended realism and began naturalism.

There are many themes within Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People”. Religion is definitely one of the more prominent themes that the story holds. Like most of O’Connor’s works, it plays a big part in the actions or characteristics of the main characters. This is all on the surface however. The more important and less accentuated theme is the various facades the characters create for themselves. These facades prevent them from facing their true “grotesque” selves. These facades also hide their weaknesses that they have no wish to face ort just can’t understand. People must be comfortable with every aspect of themselves, because certain people, who in this story

They partake in a war revolving around the ideals of Christianity and the existence of God and morality, however it is entirely filled with hypocrisy. O’Conner’s belief of a single gesture is proven to be true when Rufus tears a page of the Bible and eats it, and act that would typically to be considered sacrilegious, in order to show his faith in God and/or Jesus. O'Connor believes that people that are liberal and atheistic are wrong and egotistical. O’Connor also shows that conservatives and people that are religious can be hypocritical and egotistical. I believe that she thinks that naturally people are inclined towards religion and that people by nature are hypocrites even if they do not try to

After the Civil War, realism became a dominant form of writing in the United States, with writers attempting to write about everyday life. After realism came naturalism, a form of writing similar to realism, but with more pessimism. One of the reasons for this pessimism stems from free will and the question of whether people possess it or not. In realism, it is definitely true, while in naturalism it seems less so, but the options are often less than ideal. Because choices do exist for characters, free will is still there, which indicates that naturalism is a derivative form of realism. In Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,” the characters may have little chance to escape the world they inhabit, like Maggie, Jimmie, and

Have you ever imaged that you have a baby whose father is Satan? People around you, even your husband, are members of a Satanic coven, and they need your baby to immolate to the Devil. And your husband, in order to achieve more success in his career, had agreed to sacrifice the baby, so would you like to exchange your infant? Otherwise, your husband never achieves his goals in his life. Indeed, it happens in a horror novel, “Rosemary’s baby,” written by Ira Levin. Its publication date is March 12, 1967, and it was the best-selling horror novel in that year. To be sure, the book is eldritch, concupiscence, and animalistic. The book centers on a young couple, Rosemary Woodhouse and Guy Woodhouse, who just moved into an apartment in New York, which has an ominous

I slipped beneath the surface of the pool of grain, my hands sticking straight up over my head as I held my breath, preparing for death. I was preparing for the world to go silent. This was the exact situation my father had warned me about, and I had fallen victim to it despite that. Fourteen years old as of two months ago, and death had already come for me. Or so I thought. I felt firm, callused hands grasp my own, plucking me from my grave. The relief was wonderful. I drank the air in, filling my burning lungs with as much as possible. I almost laughed out of sheer happiness – until my eyes met my father’s.

Sixty years separate the publication of the dystopias The Children of Men and Brave New World, but both authors express their depictions of a future world in which religion is drastically changed, and not for the better. Religion and spirituality serve a number of purposes in the two novels, most notably to illustrate the difference between our society and their dystopian society, and also to show the importance of faith in overcoming the difficulties which human beings face.

society of Omelas but the mood changes entirely whenever the dark secret of the child that is

Mr. Farebrother and Fred are hypocritical when it comes to their religion and their behavior. However, one could argue that they are both good moral person at heart and that their bad behaviors are somewhat excusable. Mr. Farebrother relied on gambling to provide for his mother and her sisters, while Fred was raised in an environment where