The book report for this marking period is one that is enjoyed by millions and millions of people; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane. What is interesting about this book is that even though it was written well over one hundred years ago, the lessons learned in this book can be applied to the time and place of today.
             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.
             The main character in Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is Maggie, a girl born into a poor family that likes to get drunk and basically have fist fights and try to literally kill one another. Maggie is a self-assured woman, and she is basically a diamond in the rough. Where Maggie lives, the people really don't count on physical looks, but Maggie on the other hand is the most beautiful woman of the community. Maggie also likes to hide her feelings a lot. This is shown when she gets a crush on one of her brother's friend, Pete. She goes around staring at him, but not saying really much. This is also shown when she is at home. When her parents are drunk and fighting, she just sits there, doing nothing and saying nothing. Basically, Maggie goes around and does her own...