Favorite Quotes “An important site of naturalistic writing was the city, or urban ‘jungle,’” (pg. 1138). “Rather than a source of solace or a spiritual resource, naturalists view ‘nature’ as an indifferent backdrop for the struggles and strivings of human beings. Indeed, in many naturalistic works characters struggle for survival against the seemingly hostile forces of nature,” (pg. 1138). “Spencer held that Darwin’s theories of evolution through natural selection also apply to individuals or groups within society, which consequently operate under the natural law of ‘survival of the fittest.’ In effect, as the naturalists understood Darwin and Spencer, man is simply an animal struggling for survival in a competitive jungle and driven by the same internal and external forces that operate on other animals,” (pgs. 1137-1138).
Crane
Crane’s story shows that they had to go through difficult conditions. The captain was physically injured, but he also suffered some mentally because he “was at this time buried in that profound dejection and
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This may have been in part because of his military experience. “Rising to the rank of brevet captain, he fought with distinction in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War,” (pg. 1200). “Those harsh war experiences profoundly shaped his outlook on life, as well as his satirical and often bitter writings,” (pg. 1200).
It also demonstrated the horrors of war. The boy was just playing as the wounded men walked or crept until he jumped on a man’s back and got thrown off. “He rose to his knees, the child to his feet. The man shook his fist at the child; the child, terrified at last, ran to a tree near by, got upon the farther side of it and took a more serious view of the situation,” (pg.