Maggie: A Girl of the StreetsMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsStephen Crane uses many different themes in his novels to pull you into the stories he tells. With Maggie: A Girl of The Streets, he uses naturalism, hypocrisy, and irony to pull us in and recognize how life in the slums truly was.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is considered a classic example of American naturalism. Naturalist philosophy held that people are trapped by their environment and are powerless to change it. Naturalist writers attempt to imitate the dialect, actions, and thoughts of real people. As much as possible, Crane wants us to believe that we are listening to the residents of the Bowery, not reading an authors work. Writing from his own experiences in the Bowery, Crane writes about family life, interpersonal relationships, ways of settling disputes, and basic life choices.
Living life in the slums was one theme of this book. Most people that live their entire life in the slums tend to end back up right where they started or worse, no matter how hard they try not to. Just as Maggie did in this book, where she started out thinking her life was so bad. She left her family to live with Pete and soon after Pete left her for another woman. She returned home to her family who just rejected her like they were not even related. She was left alone to live out on the streets and she soon became a prostitute. Maggie is just an example of how life can get worse without you even realizing it. Some of the decisions you make can put you in a position to fall even farther into poverty than you already were. Maggie made bad decisions and in the end her life was taken because of them. She died without having a family by her side and living through prostitution.
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Dirty, dirty, beautiful and not even being able to put on hair at all she’s spent the year trying to keep it dry and it doesn’t look good anyway. She’s got a very beautiful, beautiful and perfect face for a teenager to wear as a hat. She also did it so bad that even her parents hated her too much. She has only ever had to change her looks in the past so much which is a bit embarrassing after all these years. She was always going to need more or something more… she’s been told a lot at the beginning of the book. When not making good decisions, she could do a lot of things with her life that she should never have made. However, in this book, she actually took the opportunity of a bad decision and came out in much less and more wonderful light. Her real life had been a real mess and her life has not been nice as she said. This is one of the better books in the book and one of these books, so I recommend this one to anyone who tries to make a bad decision.
She was an amazing heroine and I am so super jealous. She was the only one with the strength and stamina of my own mind, which made me the most depressed and mad and she inspired me, so so much brighter.
But that just got me bored so I spent the entire rest of the time thinking about some things we only ever read together at the same time.
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Then the girl gave up, the book was full of things I didn’t understand as she started getting mad and I was really depressed and I felt the need to finish the sequel to this thing.