Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane questions man's fate in this world through naturalism. In "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," Crane shows the helplessness of one's state in relation to poverty, and in "The Open Boat," Crane shows the helplessness of one's state in relation to nature. Crane emphasizes the essence that forces, such as poverty and nature, are not adversaries to man, but rather that they are simply forces that are apathetic towards man. "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" can be a downer, but it is…

Name: Derwin Book Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Major Characters with a brief description (add more bullets as necessary): • Name: Henry Fleming • Description: Beginning: o Fantasizer o Young o Vain o Self-centered o Wild End: o Emotional o Tough o Courage o Mature • Name: Jim Conklin • Description: o Strong o Self-reliant o Follower o Quiet o Gets the job done • Name: Wilson • Description: Beginning: o Loud o Arrogant o Young End: o Generous o Caring o Mature…

What benefit does war serve to those who fight? This is what writers such as Stephen Crane, Wilfred Owen, Tim O’Brien, and Kevin Powers all pull into question in certain pieces of work they have created. Crane worked as a journalist and he also covered the Spanish- American War, he wrote the poem, “War Is Kind”. Owen had fought and died in World War I and Owen wrote “Dulce et Decorum Est”. O’Brien served in the Vietnam war and wrote the novel, “The Things They Carried”. Finally, Powers served in…

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about Henry Fleming. Henry was a young soldier who enlisted in the army so that he would be known as a courageous person. Soon after Henry’s first battle started, he quickly deserted, and ran away into the woods. Although his fellow soldiers would consider this a cowardly act, Henry had believed that what he had done is smart. Subsequently Henry threw a pine cone at a squirrel and it ran off, Henry had believed that the law of nature is to protect…

Writers protest war by using imagery, irony, and structure. Stephen Crane, author of “War Is Kind”, Wilfred Owen, author of “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Tim O’Brien, author of “The Things They Carried” use irony and imagery to protest war. Kevin Powers use structure in his document to protest war. Many people can easily notice figurative language, but it takes a creative eye to fully understand the true meaning in poetry and novels. Stephen Crane shows a repetition of irony in his poem, “War Is…

The Paper Crane Imagine a time where people spent the evenings at the disco. Life was full of hope and women were looked at from a completely new perspective, oh the 70’s. Within the town of Woodsbury, a young girl named Emily lived with her family. Despite being 9 years old, she loved to feel and act like a grown up. She was a proper girl who always dressed-up in out of her mother’s wardrobe. From the shoes to the extravagant dresses, Emily found a way to make it work. She was insightful,…

A crane has collapsed, with only minor injuries to workers that could be treated at the company’s nurse’s office. Depending on the level of care, the injuries may make the mishap reportable in that sense, but regardless it should be investigated as a near-miss mishap since employees could have been severely injured or killed. Additionally, there is word that OSHA has been called by an employee complaining that this is an imminent danger situation. Although supervisors, engineers, and I as the…

Why are some people treated so unfairly? Frederick Douglass and Stephen Crane used internal and external conflict to describe how people were not treated fairly. They also gave you some sort of insight about how the people felt. In the story; “ My Bondage and My Freedom” Frederick Douglass showed us how people were not treated fairly through internal conflict. Douglass felt like he should have been given the opportunity to do the things the other kids around him got to do. He…

The first scene starts with the eastern train "whirling onward" (Crane 79) from San Antonio through Texas, going west toward Yellow Sky. Jack Potter, Yellow Sky's town marshal, is on the train with his new wife, who "was not pretty, nor was she very young" (Crane 79). They are happy but uncomfortable, the bewildered them with all the amazing things. They were not used to it, and they are unnervingly aware of the proper surroundings. The travelers, and the waiter, and porter, look at them…

The piece I examined, titled Cranes, was created by the artist Maruyama Ōkyo in Japan, 1772. This piece is displayed in the LACMA Museum. Cranes consists of thin wood panel screens wrapped in gold leaf paper. Painted atop the gold leaf paper are twelve red-crowned cranes and five white-naped cranes with an acrylic type of paint. This piece stands on a cut portion of the wall, giving it the large scale of 6’0” tall by 24’0” wide estimated. The whole piece is made of twelve tall rectangular…