Stephen Crane was the father of American Realism. Most people did not want to read about child hunger or homeless people, but these writings actually help these problems. Dark Brown Dog shows how not very wealthy people live. The father in this story is not a very good father, he drinks, he beats the little boy and the dog. I think Crane’s writings were helpful because it alerted people what is actually happening around them. Child hunger is less because we are doing something about it, and we would not have known that if we never read Crane’s writing. It also helped us see what we were doing to animals. “A short rope was dragging from his neck.” that was a line from The Dark Brown Dog, it shows people were abusing animals by leashing them