Life of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane might best be regarded as an inexplicable literary phenomenon: a brief, bright comet, brilliant from every other writer from his time. Stephen Crane is a crucial transitional figure in American literature. His contribution to the American literature is fairly slight in bulk: one classic short novel, three short stories, and maybe two or three ironic lyrics. The Red Badge of Courage; The Open Boat, and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky are some of his short novel and short stories. The Open Boat is about four shipwrecked men in a rowboat. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky is about a Marshal bringing his wife home to Yellow Sky. Between the two stories, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky is a better story than The Open Boat. It is short for one thing and a great twist at the end for another. In Crane's work, he used literary terms, which makes his stories interesting. Stephen Crane had a lot of influences in his life, which he uses in his story. His style of writing made him !and his stories very famous as a writer of his times. He was a great impressionist, realist, literary naturalist, and ironist. The Open Boat is about the struggle of four shipwrecked men trying to survive the rough sea in a ten foot rowboat. The four men
Solomon, Eric. Stephen Crane: From Parody to Realism. Harvard University Press, 1966. Stephen Crane was born November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. Crane was the fourteenth and last child of the Crane family, Stephen's father had an established parish and a position of some importance in the Methodist Church, but he lost both when he publicly condemned the faith's embrace of the so-called Holiness Movement. This was the reason why they had to move so much. In 1883, they moved to Asbury Park where prostitution, liquor, and gambling were all present. Here he kind of got some experience for later when he wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in 1896. In 1896, he was virtually run out of New York City for publicly defending a falsely arrested prostitute named Dora Clark. When Crane was seventeen, his mother having losing control of him, sent him away to school. In 1888, he was at the Hudson River Institute in Claverack, New York. This military school was weak in academic, but it gave Crane some background (and presumably, from the Civil War veterans on the staff, ! Fox McC., Austin. Maggie and Other Stories. Washington Square Press, 1988. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ provided him with some anecdotes) which prove useful when he came to writing The Red Badge of Courage in 1895. In November of 1896, Crane left to Jacksonville, Florida from New York, to report on the Cuban insurrection; there he met his future wife, Cora Taylor. In January, 1897, he was shipwrecked from the steamer Commodore off the Florida coast, an experience which led him to write his masterpiece short story The Open Boat (1897). In 1898, he volunteer for service in the Spanish-American war. He was turned down probably because diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, but went anyway as a correspondent. He returned to England in 1899, where he lived with his wife in Brede Place, an ancient manor house that Cora found. He kept writing in losing effort to get enough money that would keep up with his wife's expenses. At Christmas he suffered a massive tubercular hemorrhage; that spring, Cora took him to Badenweiler, Germany, where he died at the age of twenty-eight on June 5, 190! Literary
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