Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a novella written in 1893 by Stephen Crane, focuses on a poverty stricken family living in the Bowery district of New York City. This novella is regarded as one of the first works of naturalism in American literature and it helped shape the naturalistic principle that a character is set into a world where there is no escape from one’s biological heredity and the circumstances that the characters find themselves in will dominate their behavior and deprive them of individual

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    Naturalism in “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” Stephen Crane’s analysis of life is spawned from his point of view about the world. These opinions correlate alongside naturalistic train of understanding. He applied a legitimate law of the universe, “ one can either accept the laws determining the social order or become their victim,” which is applied to the novel Maggie: Girl of the streets. The book is an example of Naturalistic and a Realistic novel that offers an accurate

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    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, written by Stephen Crane, looks at the reality of life in New York City during the late 1800s. The novel takes place in the heart of the Bowery, a section of the city full of poverty, hardship, and crime. During the time of industrialization, poverty became an issue when a large amount of immigrants found refuge in the United States. The influx of immigrants created larger cities and a mew consumer society. Because of this poverty, Jimmie and Maggie, become the tragic

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    In Stephen Crane’s Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, the reader is given key insight into the daily lives of a family that is torn apart due to their social environment. The story takes place in a poverty-stricken area called Rum Alley, which is located in the Bowery. The protagonist Maggie Johnson and her brother Jimmie are shaped by the society that they live in and the interactions they have. Maggie and Jimmie have abusive, alcoholic parents who constantly berate their kids for no good reason, resulting

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    Stephen Crane wrote many short stories, one of which was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. His stories contained various aspects of Naturalism, a literary movement that sought to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. Poverty, abuse and a survival of the fittest way of life created an environment which Maggie was negatively influenced by. Her environment is made up of

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    In Stephen Crane's novel, "Maggie, A Girl of the Streets", there is a great deal of moral development in the life of Maggie Johnson, the protagonist of the story. Throughout the novella, she undergoes a great deal of emotional, mental, and physical turmoil after a series of events leaves her out on the streets. Because she has no choice but to fend for herself, she does some questionable things herself, and ultimately becomes a completely different person, with different characters having a hug influence

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    characters. I find that most of the female characters are treated as the weaker sex within naturalist works. It also is clear that in naturalist works the gender roles are not strictly enforced. If we take a look at The Yellow Wall Paper and Maggie a Girl of the Streets we can see many examples of this. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper, we as the reader is given an intimate look at the narrators developing insanity. The reader is treated to an intimate portrait of developing

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    draft of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane). In 1895, Crane, who had never been in combat, wrote The Red Badge of Courage. He wrote the poem, “War is Kind”, based on his personal experiences in war. When he was only twenty-eight, he died of tuberculosis in 1900. Stephen Crane’s literary works have recurring controversial themes of violence, courage, and war that have caused substantial objections by some readers and critics. Stephen Crane’s first major literary work is Maggie: A Girl of the

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    conditions for the working poor were deplorable. Even though the United States became a global economic and industrial power, the workers saw very little of this “power”, and it was particularly worse for women and children. Crane uses Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, to show the miserable conditions the working poor lived and worked in, despite America prospering. Hines interviews different people and writes a letter that describes the horrible conditions workers and families faced. Families including

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    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The theme I chose for the novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, that centers around the main character Maggie is that family isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. When you think of family usually you would think of warmth, happiness, support, love, affection, shelter and all the above, right? Well to Maggie it really isn’t easy to better herself with her family always pushing her back down and not being there to catch her when she falls. I chose three quotes from

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