| TASK 4 |
| PROCEDURE: Read the following poem and answer the questions. |
| A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." ---Stephen Crane |
| ESSAY QUESTIONS: Using the knowledge you've attained from completing the novel and the webquest, answer one of the following questions: 1. How might this poem relate to the lives of Maggie and her family? 2. Thinking about a man living in a New York City tenement, why might the speaker of this poem have to say to the universe, "Sir I exist"? 3. What might Jacob Riis have thought about this poem and Maggie? |