Question

Which excerpt best reflects common features of realistic fiction?

"This little affair," said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, "is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal." He pointed to the part with his finger. "Also, here is one little white lever, and here is another." (H. G. Wells, The Time Machine) So Christian turned out of his way to go to Mr. Legality's house for help; but, behold, when he was got now hard by the hill, it seemed so high, and also that side of it that was next the wayside did hang so much over, that Christian was afraid to venture further, lest the hill should fall on his head; wherefore there he stood still and wotted not what to do. Also his burden now seemed heavier to him than while he was in his way. There came also flashes of fire out of the hill, that made Christian afraid that he should be burned. (John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress) From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank. (Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets) Wolf meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink

Answer 1

What social issue is raised through the description of the woman's environment?

✔ poverty

What social issue do the laborers and convicts represent?

✔ crime and violence

What emotional impression does the scene have on you? Check any boxes that apply.

✔sympathy

✔cynicism

✔scorn

✔fear

Answer 2

- From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.

(Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)

Step-by-step explanation:

'Realistic Fiction' is described as the narrative that involves fictional characters with a true-to-life setting aiming to portray the circumstances and struggles faced by people in the actual world and their probable consequences.

As per the question, the excerpt from 'Maggie; A Girl of Streets' exemplifies realistic fiction as it depicts a lifelike setting('squat...ignorant stables...dock at the river' showing Bowery, New York) to portray the social problem of the 'poverty' and the miseries caused by it eventually leading people to take uncalled steps as Maggie did by committing sui-cide.