Literary Elements of The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte

Another theme, personal identity, is seen throughout all of the characters in the book. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of

Later that evening, we got to the boys’ cabin, We felt the icy air of the cabin. I rushed to the bathroom to get changed first. After that, everybody was in their pajamas when something tragic happened.

They leave the snow hole in the morning. Joe abseils down a cliff, he falls down the east face and breaks his leg. Simon tries to help him get down to the camp. He abseils Joe down a few ledges. Joe tells simon to slow down but he cant hear him.

Johnathan Brewster- He is the brother of Teddy and Mortimer and is the nephew to Martha and Abby. He is an escaped fugitive who has homicidal tendencies.

white missionaries who are introduced in the second half of the novel. Through his narrative,

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

This person is unlike any of the passengers aboard the Stamboul-Calais coach. Hildegarde Schmidt tells Poirot she saw a man in a Wagon Lit Conductor's uniform moving quickly down the hallway that matched Hardman's description. The passengers attempt to create an enemy and a person that entered the train, murdered Ratchett and quickly left. The passengers use the idea of a typical murderer to convince Poirot that the mysterious person kills Ratchett. The twelve murderers use the concealment and the lie to hide their identities and erase any connection to the Armstrong case.

farmer that lived in the town. He represents a person who is not perfect but

Total Opposites In the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, the author uses characters in the story that have very similar characteristics, except for one, "Uncle Billy." John Oakhurst is a big time gambler in Poker Flat. He took large sums of money from many people in town. The residents of Poker Flat were very upset with him always winning bets and all of their money. Out of all the people that are banned from Poker Flat, Oakhurst possesses the best qualities out of the group. The people of the town were attempting to clean up Poker Flat, but they really only rid themselves of one thief and three good hearted people that had some bad breaks. The other people that were forced to leave were "The Duchess" and "Mother

• A possible place to look for analysis is in the names of the characters:

The Story “The Outcast of Poker Flat” written by Brett Harte, is a story in which was set in the 1800’s where technology was unrecognized. The insertion of one piece of modern technology consequently would have changed the story in dramatic ways. Nevertheless the story of four troublemakers in which were banned from the town of Poker Flat due to their bad habits. Mother Shipton who was a madam along with her Duchess were banned for being moderate, a thief and a gambler joined the women later on. The group of troublemakers decided to sleep in a cabin by the mountains overnight, following next morning they wake up to find Billy, consequently known for being a thief, stole their horses as well as a majority of the group's supplies. Billy before long ends up dying along with the horses as they were trapped in the blizzard. Mother Shipton, the Dutchess, along with Tom Simson, and Piney Woods, joined them in the cabin while they were stuck to weather the blizzard.

The lumberjack, who could also be minor criminal because, he is willing to turn a blind eye to the wrong, or the law breaking the princess, or criminal was planning on doing and not turn her in to the authorities.

Eliza Mortales, her captain, may or may not have killed her last crew. Jen Koipack was a security engineer and also member of an overly-happy goth cult that was not allowed to appear negative. Yolanda was their leader, and about as corrupt as they come.

3. The name of the central character, together with a description of the character 's

The story consisted of seven main characters, each adding depth to the story and contributing to the development of the plot. Two of the seven characters where the Englishmen Hawkins and Belcher. Hawkins was a "little Englishman" with a "deplorable tongue" who "never did a stroke of