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In five pages this paper examines how Stephen Crane’s literary works and his thematic/structural approaches were influenced by his brief life. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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of what his life would be, provided the canvas upon which his fertile imagination painted vivid images as a journalist would describe them. He inspired the next generation of
American authors, including a fellow wartime correspondent, Ernest Hemingway. His trademark narratives were that of the engaged observer "distributing the news," which became the linguistic metaphor featured throughout his
articles, novels, and short stories (Crisman 207). But much like other journalists covering war, Crane did not merely wish to be a part of war; he wanted to experience
it for himself. Perhaps inspired by the wartime yarns of the ancient Greeks like Homer who celebrated war and its heroes, Crane was eternally interested in what inner fortitude
it took to make a hero. That is an overriding theme in much of his works, and is often reduced to the essential theme of man vs. nature.
In Cranes life, he was frequently socially isolated from others and so too were his protagonists. He also tended to view life with an irony and sarcasm that are
also featured in his writings, almost as if he realized he would not live long and that a huge cosmic joke was being played on him. Stephen Crane was born
in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Methodist minister and his equally conservative wife, who was an active member of the
Womens Christian Temperance Union (Chowder 109). Cranes early Spartan childhood was spent mostly in church and hearing home-preached sermons against the evils of tobacco, alcohol, and novels (Chowder 109).
His life was filled with personal loss beginning with his fathers death when he was seven, followed five years later by his sister Agnes death; she had encouraged Cranes
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