Stephen Crane's short story, "Maggie: A Girl of the Street," takes place at the end of the 19th Century in New York City. The main character is a young girl Maggie who was born into a poor family who enjoys getting drunk and fighting. ... Maggie's brother Jimmie is a ruffian at heart. ... In the course of Maggie's life, she turned into a beautiful girl, untouched by the squalor around her. ... Pete eventually did become bored with Maggie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets In the Stephen Crane novel; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Maggie and Jimmie are two siblings being raised within the Lower East Side slums of New York City. ... "The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. ... "Maggie perceived that here was the beau ideal of a man." ... Over time Pete took Maggie out to different dance halls, and they were amazing to Maggie. ... Maggie had been in the wrong environment from her birth. ...

• Word Count: 872
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• Grade Level: High School

Maggie: A girl of the streets by Stephen Crane is a short novel about a young girl and the people in her life. ... Maggie's mother, Mrs. ... Maggie tries to escape from the zoo her house has become. ... She was selfish and disregarded Maggie and Jimmie. ... As a conclusion in this novel, after Maggie has died, Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 411
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• Grade Level: High School

In Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the characters go against their morals all the time, and they publically side with the common beliefs. ... However, the difference between Mary and her son is that Jimmie briefly realizes that he is a hypocrite for doing the same thing to other girls as Pete does to his own sister. ... Jimmie has gotten a couple of girls pregnant and left them and his children to fend for themselves but is upset, briefly, that Pete is using Maggie in his own game. ... Pete wants to move on to the next girl, he knew he was never going to stay with Maggie fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the short story, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets- by Stephen Crane, the young girl in the story faces unbearable conditions in her personal life that prevent her from reaching her full potential. "The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle- (page 16). ... Life lessons had to be either self taught, or learned from the cold streets. ... Pete became a devilish obsession which did the young girl harm. ... The young girl had to instead deal with her surrounding and make the best of them. ...

• Word Count: 1249
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• Grade Level: High School

When we look at Stephen Crane's Maggie: Girl of the Streets, we are able to explore a bit this of primal human condition and compare it not only to our own lives but to other literary works from different times and different settings. ... When trouble hits the neighborhood, the residents are at the scene, taking in the horrible displays lustfully: "Through the open doors curious eyes started in at Maggie. ... This idea connects right into Maggie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Script Hi! This is the Era Television Channel. The genre of the day is naturalism. N-A-T-U-R-A-L-I-S-M. Naturalism is one of the greatest eras, because it has many wonderful authors and novels. Do you know what it takes to be naturalistic? First of all, it is a form of realism. It has to be real...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Zitkala Ša in Impressions of an Indian Childhood uses the narrative voice of a young girl (her) to explain what happened to her when this attempt at assimilation occurred. ... The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Maggie, A Girl of the Streets). ... Due to her age, which Ša is able to keep in character so well, this little girl cannot understand why her mom just won't let her go, doesn't comprehend why her mom is so upset, at least on the appropriate level. When the missionaries show up, one can assume they may be kind, just doing their jobs, but the fact that they're using apples...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. Discuss the novel as a psychological journey. Discuss how Henry Changes throughout the novel. What causes him to change? Henry Fleming is a young solider fighting for the union army during the civil war. Throughout the war Henry ventures on a long psychological journey to discover himself. Ofte...

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• Grade Level: High School

The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. His surviving captors put him to work finding, burying, and burning bodies. ...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School