This novel is set in an unnamed city in the south, probably during the late 19th century. The story begins with Jimmie as a little kid getting into scraps with a rival gang. Then it jumps about 4 years to when Jimmie was a preteen. About every few chapters the story line will jump a few years and by the end of Maggie's life the story would have spanned about 30 years. People around the city hate Jimmie and Maggie's family, the Johnson's, because their parents drink and get rowdy in the middle of the night. The atmosphere of this book is heavy and depressing, because all the people in the city are poor and then the author describes the horrible conditions that they live in. But when the main character dies, the emotion changes, because the family comes together and you are filled with over joy.

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The theme of Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is shown to the reader with Maggie's constant struggle with trying to fit in with her family and especially her mother. Crane's message is somewhat clear and that is that whether you are alive or not, people will always forgive you and make anew. This means that no matter how much bad things a person does, their true friends and families will always forgive for wrong doing. This is supported with the story of Maggie and going against her family's beliefs of not dating a person of a different race. She didn't care, and for that she lost her family, and their support. Both her mother and her brother did not even want to be around her at all, they hated her like dirt. Finally, when Maggie dies, the mother and Jimmie feel really guilty and in the end, they forgive her, which proves that everyone eventually forgives everyone else, even if something tragic has to happen. This story's theme resembles what the world is probably moving to. Countries will forgive countries and hopefully world peace will finally break out.

When this is over, 4 years had passed and Jimmie and Maggie's father had died so the family would be down to 3. Jimmie has now taken a shine to drinking and coming home drunk all the time, and Maggie had grown to be the most beautiful woman in town. Maggie is adored by lots of guys, but she really isn't interested in any of the guys. Their mom, still drinks and abuses both of her kids if they do anything wrong, even though her husband is not there to stop her from killing them.

The novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane uses a unique point of view. The story is told in third person omniscient point of view. There is no narrator; we the audience are the narrator and we can read the people's minds and know what they are thinking through and outside observer. We know the character's thoughts and feelings through this outside observer and not through the characters thoughts and actions. Some one always tells us what is going on. When Jimmie was being hit in the face by r

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)