... by Francis Bret Harte. The story is drawn with ordinary images, but it contains a lot of hidden feelings and inner thoughts through the characters' actions. John Oakhurst is a gambler who often wins money in playing cards with people in Poker Flat. In the beginning of the story, the narrator describes Mr. Oakhurst as if he commits a crime and he is worthy to receive a punishment ... outcast issue as a secret to Tom and Piney; he does not want to frighten them. He only wants to protect them and brings them out of this deathly mountain covering in white snow and cold winds. Because of wha...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. Another question arises when considering the two novels: does ... from the unexpected. The parents receive in the mail a book that their son has just published in Canada, and they take turns reading the stories, which re- create his and their own experiences from the days before he emigrated. The action switches between the cold North and the t...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. Another question arises when considering the two novels: does ... from the unexpected. The parents receive in the mail a book that their son has just published in Canada, and they take turns reading the stories, which re- create his and their own experiences from the days before he emigrated. The action switches between the cold North and the t...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... scene to the Jewish American culture of the early 1900"s. She tells of the cluttered filth of poverty, of the hunger and cold suffer by a people who were looking for the "American Dream"(Zaborowska 118 ). She presents all of this in a stylized English-Yiddish dialect. She makes the issues of gender and authorship not only central but pivotal for her books depicting ... Falls, Minnesota June 7, 1954. Erdrich was the daughter of a French Ojibwe mother and German American father. Erdrich was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her Chippewa grandfather was the tribal chair of the nearby...

• Word Count: 3356
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School