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    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by an American author, Stephen Crane that was published in 1893. Maggie was published during the time period of industrialization. Industrialization was the transition to new manufacturing the period from somewhere between the 1760’s to the 1840’s. The novel was more about how Maggie was driven to certain circumstances and how she failed. The work by Stephen Crane was natural and seemed so real that it became a natural novella but Stephen Crane was no naturalist

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    poverty to the desire for freedom. In the case of the tenets of Rum Alley, unity of the community comes from a need to establish a social hierarchy, and dominance. The events of unity occur in strange circumstances throughout Stephen Crane’s novel Maggie: a Girl of the Streets. The novel tells the story of a young girl in her teenage years, and her development in society. Maggie undergoes a difficult upbringing with the death of her younger brother, a drunk for a mother and father, and an older brother

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    Major Paper One 2132H Stephen Crane's novel "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is about a girl named Maggie Johnson and her family, who grow up in the slums of NYC, in a tenement house. Maggie has two brothers, one of which dies, an abusive mother and a drunken father. She grows up in a poor dysfunctional family. Their house environment is the beginning of her struggle and the beginning of her internal struggle. Maggie dreams of a better life than what she had to suffer through in the beginning but

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    In Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: a Girl of the Streets,” he first begins to tell a story in which leads to the formation of each individual character in Maggie's household. Its through the placement of each character that the reader gets a sense of the environment Maggie is living in. Through expert wording Crane can transport you into the tenements, so you can see Maggie how “blossomed in a mud-puddle”. (29) Early in the text we learn of Jimmie, Maggie's brother, a young boy who finds “honor” (7) in

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    Stephen Crane, author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, uses forms of great writing to display the harsh reality of life during the industrialization era. This novella depicts the harsh life of an innocent girl living in a bowery, a poverty-stricken tenement district in Manhattan, New York. The reality of the depictions of the tenement’s rough language and unsavory characters, and not to mention her descent into prostitution for survival, made the topic of the novella controversial for Stephen Crane

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    Maggie: a girl of the streets by Stephen Crane tackles several different social problems from the time when it was written. He addresses the issue of immigration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the welfare of people during the Industrial Revolution. The story is about two children, Maggie and Jimmie, who grow up in the Irish neighborhood of Browery, New York. Both struggle through a life filled with false hopes, crushed dreams, and drunk parents. As much the children would

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    Chapters I-VIII of Stephen Crane’s novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets are an exmaple of how literary realism depicted poverty in a frank way that many people, writers included, commonly did not discuss when it was published in the late 19th century. Crane writes about poverty in a blunt manner, which was uncommon for the late 19th century. He writes of Johnson’s neighborhood: ”In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles. In the street infants played or fought with other

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    American Disharmonies. “Failures, moral ambiguity, corruption, misery – naturalism strikes a note of opposition in the utopian representation of America. Discuss with reference to Crane. • Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets comes as an opposition to the literature of Crane’s time, when popular novels represented America in an almost utopian manner, being that the country was going through a rapid process of industrialization. However, this representation wasn’t an accurate one. It masked

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    Maggie, A Girl of the streets is written by Stephen Crane who was an American novelist and short story writer. The story bases in New York in 1920’s showing how people are evil in their daily life and life is unfair by describing a girl’s entire life named Maggie. Maggie is a little girl living in a poor family with Jimmy, his dad, and mother. Into the story, Crane uses color as imagery to show people’s feeling and reflects social issues. There are several colors used in the story: yellow, red, black

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    In Stephen Crane’s novella, Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, unhealthy relationships trap Maggie, a girl with the potential to escape her current hell, in an unescapable cycle of sin and despair. Maggie’s beauty and self-sufficiency, help her to show promise of escaping her hell in Rum Ally. Instead of using her potential to create healthy relationships with others to help her escape her hell, she falls in love with Pete who is stuck in his own hell, unable to assist Maggie in creating a better life

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