Download PDF by Horatio Alger Jr.: Ragged Dick

By Horatio Alger Jr.

ISBN-10: 1611044901

ISBN-13: 9781611044904

Fourteen-year-old Dick Hunter lives at the streets of recent York within the 1860s. His mom and dad are useless, and he has been on his personal because the age of 7. He shines footwear to earn cash. He sleeps in containers. He jokes approximately having a mansion on 5th street and approximately possessing stocks of Erie Railroad inventory. yet he can't think ever being greater than a bootblack who spends each cent he earns and lives hand-to-mouth--until accidentally he meets Frank Whitney. Ragged Dick; or, road lifestyles in long island with the Boot Blacks is arguably the easiest identified of Horatio Alger’s American rags-to-riches tales. released in 1867, it promotes the values of labor, thrift, honesty, integrity, and bravado. Alger paints his tale in vivid shades: the radical swirls with outlets, crowds, and more than a few characters, and whereas it may possibly no longer be known as fascinating in any sleek experience it still continues to be without warning readable to this present day. The name personality is Richard Hunter, higher often called Ragged Dick, an orphan residing at the streets of recent York and scraping a dwelling as a shoe shine boy. even supposing he's fast witted and has a uncomplicated morality, he lacks direction--but while he's hired to behave as a advisor to the town to Frank Whitney, a boy of his personal age, he's inspired with Frank's manners and schooling and determines to raised himself. Dick later meets Henry Fosdick, an informed formative years who has fallen on demanding occasions via no fault of his personal, and Fosdick concurs to educate Dick. They take a room jointly and, because of kindly Mr. Greyson and a surprising accident, are quickly at the street to monetary defense and social respectability. As a veritable "diamond within the rough," Ragged Dick is as innately virtuous as he's streetwise and cocky—and his tale nonetheless makes a superb read.

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Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834–1899) was once a prolific 19th-century American writer, most sensible identified for his many formulaic juvenile novels approximately impoverished boys and their upward thrust from humble backgrounds to lives of good middle-class defense and luxury via labor, choice, braveness, and honesty. He at first wrote and released for adults, yet a friendship with boys' writer William Taylor Adams led him to writing for the younger. He released for years in Adams's scholar and Schoolmate, a boys' journal of ethical writings. His lifelong topic of "rags to respectability" had a profound effect on the USA within the Gilded Age. His works received even higher attractiveness following his demise, yet progressively misplaced reader curiosity within the Twenties. Gary Scharnhorst, writer of Horatio Alger, Jr., describes Alger's variety as "anachronistic", "often laughable", "distinctive", and "distinguished by way of the standard of its literary allusions." those allusions are what set his paintings except the pulps, Scharnhorst opines, and comprise the Bible, Shakespeare (in part his books), John Milton, Longfellow, Cicero, Horace, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, Thomas grey, William Cowper, etc. "By the variety of his allusions," Scharnhorst writes, "Alger ... either printed his erudition and stronger the literary caliber of his work."

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No single theoretical point of view is the most appropriate for Peake’s work. As a novelist he excels in such painterly effects as shifting viewpoint and focal distance. As a critic I aim to do likewise, to enrich and deepen my reading by using the complementary strengths of psychoanalytic theories that offer insight into the mysteries of the human psyche. Psychoanalytic Perspectives 31 My theoretical argument could go on to discuss the interrelationships between the psychoanalytic theories of which I make use, and problematic aspects of these theories, at much greater length.

The ocean is personified in Peake’s text, and the rock is both animated and given consciousness: the “tooth-shaped rock protruding out of mid-ocean which dug itself viciously into [the ship’s] limpet-thick bottom” (“MS”, 77), the ocean with her “tremendous bosom” (“MS”, 91). To pursue this use of language further is to begin to doubt whether Mr Slaughterboard’s parents are really dead, at least at an unconscious level. 6 5 6 Freud, “Three Essays on Sexuality”, 145n. The song to which Peake’s character refers can be found in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Arden edn, ed.

31 Jungian theory has no argument with the Freudian idea of the unconscious, especially in its later version, so long as it is understood as a partial description of the human psyche. The Jungian shadow assimilates the Freudian unconscious and adds to it. Similarly, Jungian theory assimilates and modifies Freudian pessimism. Freud regards civilisation as being under 28 29 30 31 Carl Jung, “The Theory of Psychoanalysis”, in Freud and Psychoanalysis, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961), 104-17.

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