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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: movement and the beer was gone.
The man caught his breath and laughed. He hit his son on the
head with the empty pail. As it rolled clanging into the street,
Jimmie began to scream and kicked repeatedly at his father's shins.
"Look at deh dirt what yeh done me," he yelled. "Deh ol'
woman 'ill be raisin' hell."
He retreated to the middle of the street, but the man did not
pursue. He staggered toward the door.
"I'll club hell outa yeh when I ketch yeh," he shouted, and
disappeared.
During the evening he had been standing against a bar drinking
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | 
