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The Outcasts of Poker Flat By Bret Harte Laurence Olivier Laurence Olivier Presents a Selection of Short Stories ℗ 2010 Saland Publishing Released on: 2010-01-01 Music Publisher: Saland. Write this in short answer format (5-8 sentences). You should have a description of the value or values that you find most important, why they're important to you, and why you think these values are necessary and helpful in your growth to become a well rounded person.

'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' (1869) is a short story written by author of the American West Bret Harte. An example of naturalism and local color of California during the first half of the nineteenth century, 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' was first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly. It was one of two short stories which brought the author national attention.

Plot summary[edit]

The story takes place in a Californian community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte. Poker Flat is, in the opinions of many, on a downward slope. The town has lost thousands of dollars, and has experienced a moral decline. In an effort to save what is left of the town and reestablish it as a 'virtuous' place, a secret society is created to decide whom to exile and whom to kill. On November 23rd of 1850, four 'immoral' individuals are exiled from Poker Flat and warned not to return on pain of death. The first of them is a professional poker player, John Oakhurst. He is among those sent away because of his great success in winning from those on the secret committee. On his way out of town, he is joined by two women, the Duchess and Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy, the town drunk and a suspected robber. These four set out for the Sandy Bar mining camp, a day's journey away over a mountain range. At noon, the group stops for a rest over Oakhurst's protests.

While on their rest, the group is met by a pair of runaway lovers on their way to Poker Flat to get married. Piney Woods is a fifteen-year-old girl. Her lover, Tom Simson, known also as 'the Innocent', met Oakhurst before and has great admiration for him, as Oakhurst won a great deal of money from Simson. Oakhurst had returned the money and urged Simson never to gamble again, as he was a terrible player. Nonetheless, Simson is thrilled to have come upon Oakhurst on this day, and decides that he and Piney will stay with the group for a while. They do not know that the group is one of exiles, and Simson assumes that the Duchess is Oakhurst's wife, to the amusement of Uncle Billy.

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A decision is made for everyone to stay the night together, and they take shelter in a half-built cabin Simson has discovered. In the middle of the night, Oakhurst wakes up and sees a heavy snowstorm raging. Looking about, he realizes that Uncle Billy has fled with the group's horses and mules. They are all now forced to wait out the storm with provisions that will likely only last for another 10 days. After a week in the cabin, Mother Shipton dies, having secretly and altruistically starved herself in order to give her rations to Piney. Oakhurst fashions some snowshoes for Simson to use in traveling to Poker Flat for help, telling the others he will accompany the young man part of the way. The 'law of Poker Flat' finally arrives at the cabin, only to find the Duchess and Piney frozen to death and embracing in a peaceful repose. They look so peaceful and innocent that the onlookers cannot tell which of them had been exiled for her immoral behavior.

Oakhurst commits suicide under a tree by shooting himself through the heart with his derringer. A playing card, the two of clubs, is found pinned to the trunk with a note written on it:

BENEATH THIS TREELIES THE BODY OF JOHN OAKHURST, WHO STRUCK A STREAK OF BAD LUCK ON THE 23rd OF NOVEMBER, 1850, AND HANDED IN HIS CHECKS ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, 1850.

Characters[edit]

• John Oakhurst

One of the story's heroes, Oakhurst is occasionally frank but kind in motivation. He is chivalrous, insisting upon switching his good riding horse Five Spot for the mule of the Duchess and refusing to use vulgar language. He further shows his good nature by returning the $40 he had won from Tom Simson in a card game and saying, 'Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' Oakhurst is not a drinker. He is cool tempered, even keeled and has a calm manner about him. He believes in luck and fate. His suicide spurs the question whether he was simply giving in to his bad luck or rather, decided he was no longer going to live by luck and took his life.

• The Duchess, a young woman.
• Mother Shipton, another woman.
• Uncle Billy, a 'suspected sluice-robber and confirmed drunkard'.
• Tom Simson, a naïve young man who has run away from the Sandy Bar mining camp with Piney Woods and who intends to marry her at Poker Flat.
• Piney Woods, a 'a stout, comely damsel of fifteen' who is engaged to Simson.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations[edit]

Harte's story has been brought to film at least five times, including in 1919 with Harry Carey, in 1937 with Preston Foster, and in 1952 with Dale Robertson. The spaghetti westernFour of the Apocalypse is based on this story and another of Harte's stories, 'The Luck of Roaring Camp'.

Operas based on The Outcasts of Poker Flats include those by Samuel Adler,^[1]Jaromir Weinberger,^[2] Stanworth Beckler,^[3] and Andrew Earle Simpson.^[4]

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References[edit]

1. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2006-05-18. Retrieved 2006-08-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^'Jaromir Weinberger – Outcasts of Poker Flat – Opera'. boosey.com.
3. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2006-07-18. Retrieved 2006-08-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. ^Andrew Earle Simpson. 'Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat''. DCMetroTheaterArts.

External links[edit]

• The Outcasts of Poker Flat public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat – Annotated text + analyses aligned to Common Core Standards

ENGL 202 Test 2

ENGL 202 Test 2 Liberty University

Set 1

1. Which of the following is not an accurate description of naturalistic literary writing?
2. In “Chickamauga,” why does the boy climb onto the back of one of the men in the woods?
3. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is exemplary of local color or regionalism writing because
4. According to Crane’s “Do not weep,” for what purpose were these soldiers born?
5. According to Frank Norris, “Terrible things must happen to the characters” of what kind of literature?
6. According to naturalistic writers, human beings are shaped by _____________________.
7. According to the speaker of “We Wear the Mask,” what does the mask do?
8. In “The Revolt of ‘Mother,'” what does the mother do to the new barn?
9. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mr. Mallard
10. In “To Build a Fire,” what caused the fire to go out?
11. In “To Build a Fire,” what prevented the man from reigniting the fire?
12. In “Chickamauga,” the boy discovers that the source of the fire is
13. In “The Revolt of ‘Mother,’” why is mother so upset that her husband is building a new barn?
14. Many of the local color writers were
15. The major difference between realistic writing and naturalistic writing comes from their differing ___________________.
16. The men in “The Open Boat” are headed toward what point on the shore?
17. The writings of both of these authors depict the struggles of those at the fringes of society, those minority groups–of which they were a part–who had heretofore been unrepresented.
18. This literature emphasizes the environment over the people, the habits and customs of the group that inhabits a place.
19. Though sometimes labeled a realist, Ambrose Bierce may be classified as a naturalist because
20. What best describes the father’s replies to the mother in “The Revolt of ‘Mother’”?
21. What does the mask of “We Wear the Mask” hide?
22. What is the first plan the four men of “The Open Boat” devise toward being rescued?
23. Which of the characters in “The Open Boat” dies?
24. Which of the following best describes the difference between realism and naturalism?
25. Which of the following does NOT describe the human condition according to naturalism?
26. Which of the following is not one of the thinkers who influenced the rise of naturalistic literary writings?
27. Which of the following statements are true about local color writers?
28. Which of these pairs of authors wrote stories that both open by describing a hostile natural environment, bringing in complication from the outset of the stories’ exposition?
29. Which of these poems best illustrates the naturalistic view of man’s relationship to an indifferent cosmos?
30. With which of the following would Mrs. Mallard most likely agree?

Set 2

1. Which of the following statements best explains how this passage contributes to the overall theme of the story in which it is found: “She didn’t know I was in the room, and when I asked her in a quiet, a very quiet voice, with the most restrained manner possible, what she was doing with the paper–she turned around as if she had been caught stealing, and looked quite angry– asked me why I should frighten her so!”
2. What is the name of the housekeeper (the narrator’s sister-in-law) in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
3. James compares the art of the novelist with the art of this figure.
4. What was significant about Louisa’s (“A New England Nun”) afternoon tea ritual?
5. What is the name of the boat that sinks in “The Open Boat”?
6. Which of the four men in “The Open Boat” does not survive the swim to shore?
7. In “The Goophered Grapevine,” how does Dugal take advantage of Henry’s condition?
8. In “To Build a Fire,” what happened to cause the man distress–to require that he build a fire?
9. In setting up his definition of romanticism, Norris appeals to the definition and examples of which French author?
10. The man in “To Build a Fire” was traveling over a layer of how much ice covered by a layer of the same amount of snow.
11. Match the passage to the character who says it.
12. What type of realistic literature represents the dialects, customs, sights, and sounds of regional America?
13. According to Crane’s “Do not weep,” for what purpose were these soldiers born?
14. What activity is the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” forbidden to engage in?
15. Who is the man’s traveling companion in “To Build a Fire”?
16. What warning did the old timer give the man in “To Build a Fire”?
17. Which object has the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” managed to smuggle into her room by the last page of the story?
18. For what purpose has the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” along with her husband rented the colonial mansion for the summer?
19. According to the speaker of “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,” how will slaves gain their freedom?
20. Which of these pairs of poems both express the struggles of identity, living within a system that oppresses one’s hopes and dreams, requires a false face being presented to the world in order to survive, and–as a consequence–debilitates the possibility of finding wholeness?
21. Norris argues that romance is found in this place as equally as it can be found in castles and dungeons.
22. What does the man in “To Build a Fire” do to occupy himself while traveling?
23. When the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and John arrived, there was only one piece of furniture in the room, nailed to the floor. What was it?
24. After prolonged investigation, the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” decides that by daylight, the wall-paper resembles “an interminable string of toadstools” (815 [full ed.] 1691 [shorter ed.]). But by moonlight, the wall-paper has two patterns, one in front and a second one underneath the first. What are they?
25. Which of these pairs of authors wrote stories that both open by describing a hostile natural environment, bringing in complication from the outset of the stories’ exposition?
26. What type of garment does Louisa (“A New England Nun”) wear in multiple layers?
27. Match the author to his or her character.
28. Why does the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” feel she has to hide what she is writing from John and his sister?
29. Which of the following is not one of the thinkers who influenced the rise of naturalistic literary writings?
30. According to naturalistic writers, human beings are shaped by
31. The man in “To Build a Fire” takes note of the lack of what (in the environment)? He calls attention to this lack several times.
32. In “To Build a Fire,” what was the man’s plan in using the dog to fix his situation?
33. Norris disparages what he calls the ____________________ business, something with which he claims many have confused romanticism.
34. Where had Louisa’s fiance gone to make his fortune? (“A New England Nun”)
35. Who is the key French naturalistic writer that American naturalistic writers looked to for their inspiration?
36. In “The Goophered Grapevine,” what effect does the cure that Aunt Peggy gives the slave have on him?
37. The speaker of “An Ante-Bellum Sermon” tells his congregation not to tell their masters what?
38. In “The Goophered Grapevine,” primarily what types of grapes does the narrator’s vineyard grow?
39. What does the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” believe she sees in the wallpaper?
40. What is the name of the husband of the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”?