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How does Harte’s writing demonstrate regionalism? Look for both physical environment descriptions and examples of distinct western speech.

The question is from the short story called "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Please answer the question with thought and detail.

2007-01-05 11:50:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Home Schooling

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Hey kid...I'm an English teacher and I suggest you do your own homework. The answer is right there in the question for you. "Look for both physical descriptions and examples of distinct western speech." You won't learn anything if you ask the people on Answers to do it for you.

2007-01-05 11:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by lizabell79 2 · 1 5

Here are some examples

Speech patterns and words that are unique to that region of the country
"I reckon they're after somebody," he reflected; "likely it's me."
"It's agin justice," said Jim Wheeler, "to let this yer young man from Roaring Camp--an entire stranger--carry away our money."

physical environment descriptions
He returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of Poker Flat from his neat boots, and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture.

A wooded amphitheater, surrounded on three sides by precipitous cliffs of naked granite, sloped gently toward the crest of another precipice that overlooked the valley.

He looked at the gloomy walls that rose a thousand feet sheer above the circling pines around him; at the sky, ominously clouded; at the valley below, already deepening into shadow.

The Innocent with the aid of pine boughs extemporized a thatch for the roofless cabin

But it revealed drift on drift of snow piled high around the hut--a hopeless, uncharted, trackless sea of white lying below the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung. Through the marvelously clear air the smoke of the pastoral village of Poker Flat rose miles away.

Feathery drifts of snow, shaken from the long pine boughs, flew like white-winged birds, and settled about them as they slept.

2007-01-05 16:42:44 · answer #2 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 2 0

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2016-03-28 21:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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