Stephen Crane

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a series of huge waves comes tumbling towards the men in the dinghy; it capsizes. Now all the men are in the water, and one pictures them desperately trying to swim ashore. When they all had swum like crazy for a while, every body was saved, except the sailor Billy. He had been struggling the most out of everybody, even though a life jacket past him he still kept on struggling and trying. The odds were against him. Even if he really wanted to reach ashore he could not make it, because his fate was waiting for him. has written not one but many short fiction stories like this one and as one keeps reading them you get a better understanding of who really was and where he comes from.
It is not surprising for an author�s background and surroundings to profoundly affect his writing. Having come from a Methodist ancestry and living at a time when the church was still an influential aspect in people�s daily lives, was deeply instilled with religious beliefs. However, fear of ...

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He also activates components speaking of violence and war throughout the text. Here I will discuss two equally important themes: colors speak and color as a moral statement. Bright colors represent speaking out or screaming while less vivid ones represent silence or perhaps whispering. The beginning sentences put to use the colors speak metaphor. "The Palace Hotel... is a kind of heron, causing the bird to declare its position against any background". In this manner he describes the hotel as screaming and howling. Further, he writes that the Palace Hotel [because of its color] makes the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a gray swampish hush. The color is a moral statement ...

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