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Driven From Home Or Carl Crawford'S Experience
About the Book
Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience is a 1890 novel by Horatio Alger Jr. It tells the story of Carl Crawford, a young boy who is driven from home by his cruel stepmother. Carl sets out on his own, determined to make a better life for himself. Along the way, he faces many challenges, but he also meets kind and helpful people who help him on his journey. In the end, Carl achieves success through hard work and determination. The novel is set in the late 19th century, and it provides a glimpse into the lives of working-class boys at that time. Carl is a bright and hardworking boy, but he is also poor and has no one to look after him. When his stepmother drives him from home, he is forced to fend for himself. He finds work as a newsboy, and he also learns to box in order to defend himself. Carl meets many different people during his travels. Some of them are kind and helpful, while others are cruel and exploitive. But Carl never gives up hope, and he always strives to do the right thing. In the end, he achieves success through hard work and determination.
Horatio Alger Jr., an American novelist who lived from January 13, 1832, to July 18, 1899, authored books for young adults about poor lads who, through their good deeds, climb from impoverished roots to lives of stability and comfort in the middle class. His works are known for their "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative influence on the Gilded Age United States. All of Alger's young adult books revolve around the idea that a young man can change his situation for the better by acting morally. The "Horatio Alger myth" holds that the young man achieves success via toil, however, this is untrue. The youngster behaves according to classic characteristics like honesty, generosity, and altruism in the actual stories, and success is invariably the result of an accident that works to the boy's advantage. The youngster might recover a sizable sum of money that was misplaced or save a passenger from a derailed carriage. A wealthy person notices the youngster and his predicament as a result of this. For instance, in one tale, a little child narrowly avoids being hit by a streetcar before being snatched away to safety by a homeless orphan youth.
