Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson

Part I of Essay
In the books Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Maggie a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane mothers played an important factor. Mary Johnson, the mother of Maggie, and Roxy, the mother of Tom Driscoll in Pudd’ nhead Wilson, were important characters and there characteri ....

Part II of Essay
.... mistake was returned to normal. Roxy, the mother in Pudd’nhead Wilson was first seen as a hero in the book. She saved her own child from slavery and put her masters child into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html, Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she lost all her money from the steamship she returns to Dawson’s Landing hoping her son ....