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  • New Courthouse Lane Attacks Maggie
    528 words
    "Blindfold " By: Diane Hoh The title of this book is called Blindfold and it is called that because at the end of the story before this girl is going to be killed the other girl blindfolds her. The author is Diane Hoh and there isn't really any fact at all in this book about the author. The setting takes place in a small community, everybody knows everybody in this town. I think the theme of this book is to never trust anyone even if you think that they are your really good friends. The protagon...
  • Girl From The Tenement Houses
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    The novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890's. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up, she met her boyfriend, Pete. In Maggie's eyes, Pete was a sophisticated young man who impressed Maggie because he treated her better than she had been treated to all of her life. ...
  • Main Character In Maggie
    734 words
    To Pretend to be What One is Not One of the many themes shown in Maggie: a Girl of the Streets is that of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy occurs when one pretends to be something that he or she is not, and most people associate the word to a person that speaks poorly of something, yet commits that something him or her self. In Maggie, many of the main characters in the novel display the evil trait of hypocrisy. The trait is displayed by the characters of Pete, Jimmie, and both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. They pr...
  • Little Baby Brothers Of Jimmie And Maggie
    507 words
    Stephan Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Street" and Upton Sinclair's "Jungle" are both representing the real life when they are compared with each other. The events and the opinions in these short stories are corresponding with naturalistic thought and it is showed by observation technique to the readers. The characters of the stories are become the victims of the social laws that they are struggling to breach the social and economic problems which are set upon them at birth. Thus, it is importan...
  • Kids In The World Of Maggie
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    Power and Control in Maggie The world of Stephen Crane's novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is a dark, violent place. People curse one another openly and instigate fights over petty issues. The intense poverty of the populace leads to a feeling of general despair and creates a lack of self-confidence in each individual. People want to feel that they mean something. They want to know that their life does not go unnoticed. They desire power over others lives. The poor, who are constantly contro...
  • Big Daddy On His Birthday And Maggie
    662 words
    Problems Amongst Families Dysfunction and volatility is common amongst families. These families dislike their kin and often resent them. In the play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams, the Politt family does not function as a normal family. Brick, Maggie, and Big Daddy are three members of the family that have the most problems that affect the whole family. Brick, Maggie's alcoholic husband, is an uncaring man who has no good feelings toward his wife. For example, when Maggie buys a g...
  • Maggie And Brick
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    In the play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Brick and Maggie don't have the best relationship, their marriage is going through a "slum". Brick is an alcoholic who basically quit life, he doesn't work, show his love towards his beautiful wife Maggie or show any emotions or thought towards anyone. Maggie is struggling to fix her marriage and to get Brick to love her again. It appears that Maggie does love Brick but the reason she loves him is not so obvious. Maggie might actually love Brick because of who...
  • Young Maggie's Life
    768 words
    Stephen Crane's short story Maggie: a Girl of the Streets takes place in New York City near the end of the 19th century. Maggie is a young girl growing up in the ghetto. Crane reveals to the reader the feelings of desperation, resentment, poverty, and violence that Maggie is exposed to as a part of her everyday life. The reader is transported directly to the slums that were a part of the everyday life for many immigrants at the turn of the century. The story gives the reader an in depth look at ...
  • Computer In Maverick's Jet Changes Tone
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    A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world that is not ours and that brings us to the heart of a great secret. Here magic begins. Orson Welles Stan Goodspeed cringes as he thrusts the long needle into his racing heart. While he convulses on the pavement, he feels the thunder of F-17's. The command leader's words echo in Goodspeed's head, When all rockets are neutralized, launch green flares. Gras...

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