The question is from the short story called "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Please answer the question with thought and detail.
2007-01-05 11:53:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
I haven't read the book, but these sites should help you. Best of luck with it.
2007-01-05 12:03:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT gives these characters their lasting power? Why does that highly melodramatic tragedy in the hills above Poker Flat, with its stagy reformations, and contrasts of black sinner and white innocent, hold you spellbound at the thirtieth as at the first reading? Bret Harte believed, apparently, that it was his realism which did it. He had put the Western miner into literature as he was—hence the applause. He had compounded his characters of good and evil as in life, thus approximating the truth, and avoiding the error of the cartoon, in which the dissolute miner was so dissolute that it was said, “They’ve just put the keerds on that chap from the start.” But we do not wait to be told by Californians, who still remember the red-shirt period, that Roaring Camp is not realism. The lack of it is apparent in every paragraph describing that fascinating settlement.
2007-01-05 16:15:27 · answer #2 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read the short story, but fiction means that it is not real. Even stories with some real truth can be considered fiction because they have had so much added that make them not totally realistic. Look for names of places that do not really exist. Characters that are over exaggerated. Then you can answer your questions.
2007-01-05 14:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by ggirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction is a story about anybody at anytime doing anything.
2007-01-05 11:59:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋