The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Study Questions
1. what reason does Oakhurst give for his ability to to go without sleep?
2. Do you think Oakhurst knew their luck was about to run out? explain.
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In the story The Outcasts of Poker Flat? How do both the Duchess and Uncle Billy contribute to the fate of the outcasts?
*i have all the other questions, i just don't remember that one.
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Questions with 'the outcasts of poker flat'? 1. With what diversions does the group amuse itself? In what sense does the group appear to have become a family?
2. How would you characterize Oakhurst? In what sense is he 'the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat'?
3. Which of the characters and situations in the story are recongnizable stereotypes that appear in modern fictions, movies, or tv shows about the West?
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In the story Outcasts Of Poker Flat by Bret Harte? Identify the stock characters in the story and the types of people they represent
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the outcasts of poker flat...can anyone give me a summary of this story? point of view?
kinds of endings?
kinds of characters?
and the setting too?
thanks...if you don't know all that stuff...just a summary will help
DEE J replied: 'The story takes place in a California community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte. In November 1850, four 'immoral' characters are exiled as part of the 'cleansing' of bad elements by the townspeople: professional gambler John Oakhurst, two women, 'The Duchess' (a prostitute) and 'Mother Shipton' (a brothel owner), and Uncle Billy, a drunkard and suspected robber. They set out for a less-respectable camp a hard day's journey away over a mountain range, but despite Oakhurst's protests, the rest of the party decides to stop for a rest at noon, only halfway to their goal.
They meet runaway lovers on their way to Poker Flat to get married, fifteen-year-old Piney Woods and Tom Simson, or the Innocent, a younger man who admires Oakhurst. Tom leads them to a half-built cabin he discovered. They spend the night there. However, Oakhurst awakens to find a heavy snow storm raging and that Uncle Billy has stolen their mules. The party wait out the storm with few provisions.After a week, Mother Shipton dies, having secretly saved her share of the food for Piney. Oakhurst advises Simson that he will have to go for help. The gambler tells the others he will accompany the lad part of the way.
The 'law of Poker Flat' arrives at the cabin, only to find the Duchess and Piney dead, embracing in a peaceful repose. They both seemed so peaceful and innocent that one could not tell which was the virgin and which the lady of the evening. Oakhurst is found dead beneath a tree, with a pistol at his side d a bullet in his heart, having committed suicide. Simson's fate is not stated.'
Please help me understand The Outcasts of Poker Flat!!? How did the characters change from before they left Poker Flat until after they left???
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Outcasts of Poker Flat? What is the theme or purpose
Bret Harte short story
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does anyone have accurate answers on 'The outcasts of poker flat' from the Glencoe literature book? numbers 1-10
pg. 485
eastcoastraven replied: 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat. Harte, Francis Bret. 1917'
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr. and Robert Penn Warren. 'Tennessee's Partner,' in Understanding Fiction, pp. 219-20. New York' F S Croft, 1943.
Folsom, James K. 'Brei Harte,' in Critical Survey of Short Fiction, edited by Frank N Magill, Salem Press, 1981, pp. 1129-35.
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Study Questions Questions And Answers
Glover, Donald E. 'A Reconsideration of Bret Harte's Later Works,' in Western American Literature, Vol. 8, Fall, 1973, pp 143-51.
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Kolb, Harold H, Jr. 'The Outcasts of Literary Flat. Bret Harte as Humorist,' in American Literary Realism, Vol. 23, Winter, 1991, pp. 52- 63.
Morrow, Patrick. 'The Predicament of Bret Harte,' in American Literary Realism, Vol. 5, Summer, 1972, pp. 181-88.
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Study Questions And Answers
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. In American Fiction' An Historical and Critical Survey, New York. D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936.
Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream: 1850 1915, New York. Oxford University Press, 1973.