Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
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Plot Summary
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27
Themes
All Themes The Power of Thrift Fortune Favors the Industrious Clothes Make the Man The Value of Education American Democracy vs. The British Monarchy
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Richard “Ragged Dick” Hunter Henry Fosdick Frank Whitney Mr. Rockwell Mr. Greyson Mr. Whitney Mrs. Mooney Micky Maguire Jim Travis Tom Wilkins Johnny Nolan
Symbols
All Symbols The Suit Bootblacking Box Restaurants
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Dialect Dramatic Irony Ethos Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Idioms Irony Logos Mood Motifs Pathos Setting Similes Soliloquy Style Tone Verbal Irony
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by Horatio Alger
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