A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
This quote by Stephen Crane suggests how human is an insignificant existence. The very fact that one is given birth to this world doesn't change anything. Its what they do afterward that matters. Old American value were every guy has a destiny and glorious future (something like that) and it is only yet to be fulfilled. The world owes Americans loads and all Americans need to do is wait for the world to do their job. After Civil War, they realize how small human life is. It only takes one bullet (if the guy is accurate enough) to take a life. People die so easily. Never has anyone cherish life so much. In the end, they found out lives are insignificant yet precious. It is up to the person to explore and create stuff that contributes to the world, not the opposite. Stephen Crane is simply telling us stop thinking world owes us, it doesn't.
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