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Stephen Crane's I Stood Upon A High Place

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Stephen Crane an author known at the time to be considered one of the greatest American Authors who wrote during the era of Realism and Naturalism, In particular, one of his works titled “I Stood Upon A High Place” there are characteristics of Realism, its theme was based upon how a things were in his time period from 1865 through 1900 and his most identifiable work is a novel “The Red Badge Of Courage” a very popular work of Stephen Crane. Stephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey he was the last born of fourteen children, only nine survived, Reverend Crane, Stephen’s Father was well known Methodist minister and his wife Helen Crane. Reverend Crane in 1880 passed away of pulmonary complications, Stephen was only nine when his father passed away, two years after Mrs. Crane and her family moved to a small village named Port Jervis, New York, near the Delaware River, Stephen Crane did not have a full belief in Christianity, but later on his sister Agnes Crane passed away and he took that as a sign from God when it was a lightning storm when she has passed away, his works of religious poems and some others reflected …show more content…

Brother!” meaning he was indifferent from them that he was a devil as well to the sins he had committed. Stephen Crane explains it in a way where he seems to just be watching like any other would believe they only stand on the sidelines, but in reality he participates in this carousing in sin, “I Stood upon a high place” he stands above but is indifferent from them seeing them below later does he realize he is one of

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