Outcasts Of Poker Flat Questions

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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a little help with homework about The Outcasts of Poker Flat? a teacher assigned us a ton of questions about The Outcasts of Poker Flat and can you help me answer 2 of them?
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.

TheMadProfessor replied: "The story is less than 10 pages long...is this really that tough for you to do yourself?"


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.

middle child replied: "This might help:"


What effects do Tom and Piney have on all the outcasts except Uncle Billy? Why? The question is from the short story called "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Please answer the question with thought and detail.

The Answer Man replied: "The story revolves around four "immoral" characters: John Oakhurst, The Duchess, Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy. The four characters are forced to leave town together as part of the townspeoples "cleansing" of bad elements. The party leaves Poker Flats in exile. On the way, they meet Piney Woods and Tom Simson, or Innocent, a old friend from gambling. By the request of the Duchess, the group sets up camp. Oakhurst awakens in the night to find a heavy snow storm raging around him. He also notices that Uncle Billy, the drunk, is gone with the mules that the party used for transportation. Harte ushers the rest of the party into a dilapidated cabin, where they remain, snowed in, with few provisions. After ten days in the cabin, Oakhurst and Innocent venture for help. The "law of Poker Flat" comes to the cabin and sees the Duchess and Piney in a peaceful state, and they are unable to recognize who committed the crime in Poker Flat. Mr. Oakhurst is killed and buried beneath a tree. This story is an example of local color and realism during the Gilded Generation.

The main character, John Oakhurst, a gambler, is run out of town because of the money that he has won from the town's folk."


What effects does Tom and Piney have on all the outcasts except Uncle Billy? Why? The question is from the short story called "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Please answer the question with thought and detail.

glurpy replied: "Even if you are a homeschooler, you should be asking these questions in homework help, not in the homeschooling section."


What was the cause of the “Sabbath lull” in the air described in paragraph 1? What was the cause of the “Sabbath lull” in the air described in paragraph 1? Cite a passage to support your answer.

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

Serendipity replied: "The unaccustomed Sabbath lull was caused by everyone "lying low" while the evil men who had plundered the area were sought for hanging and, in fact, two were already hanging. Also, members of a secret committe were after some of the prostitutes as well, so everyone was wary. I think this paragraph tells the tale:

In point of fact, Poker Flat was "after somebody." It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen. It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it. A secret committee had determined to rid the town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from the boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters.

I regret to say that some of these were ladies. It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.


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Back at the description of realism. What aspects of this story make it qualify for that category of fiction? Look back at the description of realism. What aspects of this story make it qualify for that category of fiction?

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

Mary replied: "please do your own homework and use your brain to actually think about the issue instead of siphoning ideas from others"


Look at the description of realism. What aspects of this story make it qualify for that category of fiction? The question is from the short story called "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Please answer the question with thought and detail.

handbag replied: "Fiction is a story about anybody at anytime doing anything."


Imaka replied: "I haven't read the book, but these sites should help you. Best of luck with it."


ggirl replied: "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."


The Answer Man replied: "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."


What does Harte mean at the end by saying that Oakhurst “was once the strongest and yet the weakest now? What does Harte mean at the end of the story by saying that Oakhurst “was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat”? Explain fully.

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

blondes tease brunettes please.. replied: "he wants attention.
thats it"


How does Harte’s writing demonstrate regionalism? Look for physical environment descriptions and examples.? 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.

lizabell79 replied: "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."


The Answer Man replied: "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."