Under The Lion's Paw Compare And Contrast

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Professor Mahir English 2205 1 May 2015 Jewett and Garland's Difference in Realism: Light Versus Shadow Sarah Orne Jewett and Hamlin Garland's worlds differ in the ways they are observed and represented. Jewett's "A White Heron" illustrates internal conflict between Sylvia's love for nature and her infatuation with the hunter who seeks to capture the heron. Conversely, the world in Garland's "Under the Lion's Paw" calls attention to external conflicts such as the challenges the struggling farmer and his family face. In addition, Garland draws attention to class division and associates land ownership with greed. Jewett and Garland also differ in their writing styles and their portrayals of regionalism during the 1890s era. The characters' …show more content…

Hamlin Garland depicts a world full of shadow in Tim Haskin and his family's life in "Under the Lion's Paw." Garland uses the life of an everyday farmer, Tim Haskin, who believes in hard work and honesty and is overshadowed by the higher powers that unfortunately marginalize his authority. Scharnhorst and Quirk states, "Garland explained the loneliness of the farmer’s lot.' His farmers are determined, though their struggle for survival traps them in a life determined by outside forces: an indifferent, often hostile environment and an unjust, competitive society." This story shows the advantage of Jim Butler, which draws a line between two social classes. Hamlin Garland was originally raised in Osage, Iowa on a farm. According to the author's information in The American Tradition in Literature, "Garland saw the lonely toil and hardships of the farmer's lot from a new perspective when he revisited his old home in Iowa. Brooding and resentful at the waste of life that his family experienced, Garland began writing immediately after his return to Boston"(Perkins and Perkins 675). Garland's stories come from his personal experience of growing up on a farm and seeing the hardships that his family and people around him struggled

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