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Humor and Realism in “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
I.
Bert Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is set in a frontier area called
Roaring Camp (Harte 1).
II.
A lot of what Harte describes as frontier life is realistic.
III.
Harte also describes Roaring Camp as a place where gambling is commonplace.
IV.
Harte also uses comical absurdity to illustrate some aspects of life in frontier areas.
V.
In conclusion, combined realism and humor to pin a picture of life in frontier areas.
The Cruel Ironies of Slavery and the Culture It Created
I.
In “Free Joe and the Rest of the World,” Joel Chandler Harris portrays the cruel ironies of
slavery and the culture it created.
II.
One reason Free Joe lived a much more difficult life than enslaved black people is that
Whites were suspicious of him.
III.
Secondly, Joe lived a much more difficult life than enslaved black people because some
slave owners hated him.
IV.
Thirdly, Joe lived a much more difficult life than enslaved black people because enslaved
Black people did not like him.
V.
In conclusion, slavery resulted in cruel ironies and cultures that were detrimental to
slaves and free Black people.
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Humor and Realism in “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
Bert Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is set in a frontier area called
Roaring Camp (Harte 1). The camp is known as Roaring Camp because of the noise that had
long been associated with the place. Miners largely inhabit Roaring Camp. At the story's
beginning, all of the camp’s inhabitants are male except Cherokee Sal, a woman feared to be
quite sinful (Harte 1). Prior to her death during child labor, Sal worked as a prostitute. Sal gives
birth to a baby boy who transforms the camp and its inhabitants' lives while still in his infancy.
Harte uses frontier dialect and things like gambling, off-color language, violence, and
prostitution to inform readers who have never been to a frontier area about life in such areas.
However, on some occasions, Harte's description of frontier life borders on absurdity. Some of
the things that the writer describes the camp's inhabitants are comically absurd. Nonetheless,...