The Many Meanings of The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" is a tale about a town sheriff, Jack Potter, who is returning home from a trip where he has married. Jack returns shamefully with his new wife of little worldly experience. The town of Yellow Sky knows Jack as the fearless Marshal who is never afraid to stare down the barrel of a gun. Jack's return to Yellow Sky happens to be at a time when the town drunk, Scratchy Wilson, is looking for a gunfight. However, the townspeople and Scratchy are disappointed to find him married, unarmed, and unwilling to fight. Before Jack arrived the townspeople were hoping for his arrival to cool off the situation. As one bartender said, "'I wish Jack Potter was back from San Anton', he shot Wilson up once--in the leg--and he would sail in and pull out the kinks in this thing'" (215). This quote and Jack's shamefulness are what leads people into discussions of this story.
Jack Potter's marriage was kept secret from any of his friends and family, so his new wife was something unknown to anyone. For this and other reasons, Jack is afraid to return to Yellow Sky a married man. As critic Eric Solomon once put it: "He is condemned in his own eyes for betraying two traditions: he has tarnished the person of Marshal, a figure fearsome and independent, and he has tampered with the custom of partnership--he has not consulted his male friends" (136).
Marshal Jack Potter no longer feels the thrill of being Marshal Jack Potter because of his new engagement. Jack is afraid he will lose his reputation that the people of Yellow Sky revere him for.
Stephen Crane sets the story well because he allows the reader to understand the tw...
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...d to be seen as by the people of Yellow Sky was as an ordinary man. Instead of being a heroic figure comparable to John Wayne, Jack Potter is now comparable to the a kind of man one would categorize as ordinary.
Crane's fabulous depiction of the rise and fall of small town marshal is one of beauty. Jack Potter is seen in Yellow Sky as a person that one dreams of being, a wild-west hero that one idolizes. Soon, Crane reduces Jack Potter to the same level of the reader, and maybe below because he is now seen as a fallen hero.
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The way that Jefferson structured The Declaration of Independence made the article extremely influential. Jefferson first starts by sharing his belief that governments and monarchies that do not represent the people. He then goes on to tell the rights that he believes all people should have all over the world. The rights he describes are simple and reasonable. From there his last line of that paragraph is “to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid World.” Then he starts to describe the injustices done to the colonies by the English crown. His structure works well to persuade people because he does not start immediately accusing the king of all these injustices or with strong languages. Like all good speakers and authors, Jefferson starts off with a lightly worded statement about when a group of people should start a new government. He then transitions to a slightly stronger statement about human rights, and then he goes into his compelling injustices of the king. The injustices that he describes include “He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People. The Declaration of Independence is...
"The Richard Milhous Nixon." Presidential Administration Profiles for Students. Ed. Kelles. Sisung and Gerda-Ann Raffaelle. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Student Resources in Context. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
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Richard Milhous Nixon was born to Frank and Hannah Nixon on January 9, 1913. He was the second eldest son of five sons and was born and raised in Yorba Linda, California. His father worked as a jack of all trades until buying a family operated store where Richard worked as a child. Hannah Nixon taught Richard to read young, and by age five he was solidly progressing in the three R's. Throughout school Richard was always among the top of his class and upon graduation from Whittier High School he was offered financial scholarships to both Yale and Harvard. The scholarships covered tuition only and Richard was forced to decline them because he would be unable to afford the cost of living while away at school. Instead he attended Whittier College in 1930 and was either President of Vice President of his class three of the four years he was in school. He then was awarded another scholarship to Duke Law School in 1934. In 1937 he graduated form Duke and moved back to California. Three years later he married Patricia Ryan on June 24,1940.
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... administration and the future of the government. So the French Revolution had a big influence on the Founding Fathers.
Thomas Jefferson was a wealthy farmer in Virginia who had very strong views on Independence. He believed that the colonists had a right to independence and was going to make that his goal. Many of his arguments revolved around the actions of the British. Colonists believe that they were entitled to their natural rights: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as well as all men being created equal, having representation, and more. All these beliefs came into play when the Declaration Of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and fifty-five other delegates.
The novel opens with Henry Fleming in the field and remembering the route to his current condition within the war. Crane spends a good amount of time relaying the interaction between Henry and his mother as he prepares to go off to fight in the war as well as the questioning of himself as a man. What is so interesting about this particular part, as it relates to the end of the novel, is that the America ideals of the creation of a man (hero) through war and war as beautiful are approached and challenged.
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Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in the United States, New Jersey, home of many brothers and sisters , ranked fourth , parents were Methodists. At the age of 21 Stephen Crane published works , a minor celebrity at age 24 , died of tuberculosis at age 29 . In the nine years of his brief literary career, he published six novels, six collections of short stories , two poetry collection and a drama . His life was like a meteor rush across the American literary sky , fleeting, regrettable , but marvel. In 1891, Crane dropped out of college and went to work for a newspaper boy in New York. When ...
In 1891 Crane met a fellow leading American realist of the time, Hamlin Garland. The two had very similar ideas when it came to writing. Garland had come to the conclusion about writing that, “to be true, not to the objective reality, but to the objective reality as the author sees it” (Glencoe). The young writer’s discussions with Garland helped him to establish his ideas about writing and jumpstart his career as a novelist. Stories told by veterans helped Crane tremendously when writing his novel. He also referenced many popular magazines written just after the battle. Many veterans also wrote memoirs that portrayed going to war “as an experience of initiation, or growing up, in which a young person moves from innocence, to familiarity, to wisdom” (Glencoe). Although Crane based his novel off these reencounters, the story that he told stood out from the rest. Unlike most adventure stories of the war, he focused his book about the violence and confusing of the battlefield (Glencoe).
When people write, they always write with a purpose. We, the readers, may not be able to discern what this purpose is; however, most authors decide to either write a story, explain or inform, or persuade the reader of a particular position or opinion. Stephen Crane joined the writing world to tell stories with a lesson within them. His stories are unique in the respect that his works asserts we live in world of uncaring, natural forces. His story “The Open Boat” is rich in this style of writing. Every piece of this story is symbolic in some way, such as the boat, the waves, and the act of drowning.
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