Jan 3, 2010
In its barest details, Stephen Crane's “The Monster” is the story of a black carriage hand who saves the young son of his employer, a respected small-town doctor, from certain death in a fire that destroys the doctor's home. In the process of the rescue, the black man, Henry Johnson, is horribly burned. When he recovers under the doctor's healing hands, besides apparently losing his mental capacity, Henry loses his face as well; in fact, the only recognizable feature in his scarred countenance is a single “winking eye.”
Because of his debt to Henry, Dr....
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