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    original and "keep it real" to survive the physical and mental fatigue life throws at them and also that everything will always be real and we must be in touch with our minds to harvest the realness. Bret Harte tells of a story where a group is outcast into the world to fend for themselves during the winter season. After they have been exiled and are outside the city

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    personality and it can change over time in someone either for the greater good or just in a situation. This is shown tremendously in the short story The Outcasts of Poker Flat‚ written by one of the most famous local color writers‚ Bret Harte. This story was written in a time period of 1850’s where the great migration west was in

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    The Outcast of Poker Flat Bret Harte’s story of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" Is a study in moral contrast‚ faced with calamity. The characters react indifferent and unpredictable. Theirs John Oakhurst who is a gambling man‚ uncle Billy who is a slues robber‚ the duchess tow sisters who sell their body’s‚ and last but not least theirs Mother Shipton a proper English woman. I rank the duchess number one‚ because their the two who start the whole conflict in the story. The duchesses are kicked

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    can control how or if the die; even if inevitable? This unique story by Francis Bret Harte "The Outcast of Poker Flat"‚ has a grey western setting. Harte explores the mind of a gambler who is exiled from a warped town. Two literary devices regionalism and naturalism content is evident throughout‚ giving the story a feeling of hopelessness of survival. The regionalism in "The Outcast of Poker Flat" separates the characters from the town in such a way that is ironic. "I reckon they are after somebody"

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    Characters from “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” In “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”‚ each “immoral” character has redeeming qualities. Mother Shipton‚ a brothel owner‚ is the first to make the greatest sacrifice for another shows one of her redeeming qualities and her motherly nature. The Duchess‚ a prostitute‚ shows her redeeming qualities through being almost like an elder sister to Piney. And John Oakhurst‚ who despite his better knowledge of the situation‚ continues on with the group of outcasts and their young

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    couldn ’t make out what it was‚ and so it made the cold shivers run over me”‚ confesses Huckleberry Finn in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (7). Throughout these two pieces‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat‚” Bret Harte and Mark Twain use nature to show the effects it has on the characters in their stories. A reason on why nature had such an impact on people of this time was the lack of technology. People in the 1800’s didn’t have the technology

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    nailed to a tree‚ and gamblers all come from two very different yet similar stories. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “The Outcast of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte have similar and different regionalistic qualities. The narrators in the “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” have different regionalistic qualities. “ In compliance with… garrulous old Simon Wheeler and inquired after… and I hereunto append the result.” (Twain 660)

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    both have the potential to end. In The Outcasts of PokerFlat Bret Harte has an excellent portrayal of nature reflecting a communities actions. As the town walks the troublemakers to the town limits “[there] were no comments from the spectators‚ nor was there any word [from] the escort” (341). Not long after that “the air [grew] strangely chill and the sky overcast” (343). This sudden change of weather mimics the attitude of the people of Poker Flat. They had

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    conventions--the outcasts. By creating new templates‚ outcasts are condemned for creating a discrepancy in society. In contrast to a conformist‚ an outcast is a person who is rejected or cast out because of uncharacteristic beliefs. For example‚ in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the title character is a vagrant who finds himself at odds with the prevailing customs of his society and decides to follow his own beliefs. The short stories "The Sculptor’s Funeral" and "Rip Van Winkle" also portray outcasts that

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    There are many different topics explored in the podcast that relate to many variables in Chapters 13-19 describing the differences between sex and gender. Cristen and Caroline discuss that the labels used in determining the differences between sex and gender are commonly defined as “female” and “male”. This brings attention to the separation of “female/male” vs. “woman/man”. As u would imaging‚ in our century‚ this is a very touchy topic. Just as out book explains the definition of sex as the biological

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