"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a masterpiece short story 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...
"Who are you trying to find?" I turned around to face the speaker. He was a man either in his early sixties or his late fifties. His hair, which looked like white fuzz, had begun to recede back into nothingness. He wore a plaid shirt that clearly displayed years of wear and brown, baggy pants that s...
Piancentio, ED also stated that during that time period the story was in, the prominent mindset of white Americans was that African Americans were inferior to them. ... White Americans made fun of the dialect and felt as if they should be treated better, but why should they make fun of them when they are the ones who are restraining them from an education in the first place. ... One day Huck sees footprints in the snow and comes to a conclusion that they were his father's footprints. ...
The snow is very deep and John has to walk, he tells Ann that he must go as his father is old, he must go to help his father do work and to make sure he is okay. ... So she starts to paint the kitchen white, as the storm keeps on getting worse. ... In the morning time, Anne and Stephen find John dead and frozen to a fence not to far from the house, but there is a mysterious spot of white paint on his hand. ...
