cast from their pioneertown for participating in morally objectionable activities. The four consisted of John Oakhurst, a gambler, Duchess, a prostitute, Mother Shipton, a madam, and Uncle Billy, a local drunk . . The Duchess turned away sharply to conceal something that reddened her cheeks through their professional tint, and Mother Shipton requested Piney ‘not to chatter.’” (488) In this interjection one can see Mother Shipton’s delicate tact and attention to the feelings of both Piney and the Duchess
and the owner of a brothel Mother Shipton were the troublemakers that they had to get rid of. Mother Shipton, the first troublemaker, was a prostitute in the gambling town of Poker Flats. Mother Shipton had that “bad girl” mentality for being a prostitute. Mrs. Shipton and the other characters in the story were banished from Poker Flats and would later find themselves snowed in at a cabin in the California Mountains. While snowed in the reader can see Mother Shiptons' perceived character change. They
of Poker Flat when Mother Shipton decides to starve herself to save someone else. One important example of a change caused by an adverse circumstance is when Henry starts to worry about others and not just himself in the situation of war. Initially, Henry decides to enlist in the war because he feels that it will glorify him. Before the action starts, he is blindsided by his
Cab Calloway is definitely a singer and dancer to remember. Not only was Cab’s music innovative, but he broke racial barriers and was very successful financially during the Great Depression. Cab forever changed jazz music with his own unique style known as “scatting.” Without Cab Calloway, also known as “The Hi-De-Ho Man”, hip-hop and modern jazz may have never existed. Cab Calloway was born on December 25, 1907 in Rochester, New York at his family’s house on Cypress Street. People always tried to
In this fast-paced novel, Cass Shipton and her circle of friends are called in to find a local family that has mysteriously gone missing. Desperate to find the missing family, they find the trail points to a vicious killer with a violent past. Between Cassandra’s circle of devoted friends
prostitute known as Duchess, a witch and a prostitute known as Mother Shipton and uncle Billy the town drunkard and a suspect sluice robber. When they were in the exile, they met Tom Simson and Piney Woods a young couple that was running away. When they were out of town on their way to Sandy Bar, they decide to rest in a wooden cabin that Tom had found on his way to Poker Flat. After few days trapped in the wooden cabin, mother Shipton died by starving herself trying to help to keep Piney alive because
To Fail or not to Fail The characters of Edna, Mr. Oakhurst, The Innocent, Piney, Mother Shipton, and The Duchess all face different forms of failure in their respective stories, The Awakening and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”. Each character has a unique response to failure; some bend, while others break. Though at times people fall short of their goals, it is not necessarily the human lot to try and fail; sometimes people make the choice to fail by losing hope, or by viewing death as failure
Mother Shipton because from being two pair of prostitutes, they start to transform almost into innocent pure characters going toward the end of the story. Duchess is an example of appearance vs. reality because after working as prostitute is not a good image which makes people thinks badly about her. She go from being forced out of Poker Flat to a different person at the end Duchess starts treating Piney Woods with good care, and even being there holding her in her last moments . Mother Shipton is
and control your life and your destiny. Although many people refer to astrology as just being superstitious others say the predictions are not worth the paper they are written on. Many men and women have studied astronomy but we will look at Mother Shipton. What caused this woman to focus her life on the study of astrology? Why did she believe astrology could predict one’s character or life? Was she just passing on false information or is the universe interrelated and everything is based on these Zodiac
recession. To counteract this situation, a secret society is created to determine which people should be killed or expelled from the town. On November 23rd 1850 four people are banished - young woman called The Duchess, and older woman known as Mother Shipton, an alcoholic and robber Uncle Billy and a gabler who won a lot of money from the people of the secret society, John Oakhurst. They cannot return to the city, otherwise they will be killed by hanging.
religion, the faith we see in these texts seem to often be connected to luck and morals. In “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” the outcasts (besides Uncle Billy) are clearly virtuous figures—Mother Shipton standing out for her selflessness in her sacrifice of her own food. Though we don’t know much of Mother Shipton before they are kicked out, it’s possible that her circumstances as an outcast spurred on that selflessness; outside of the confines of society and stuck in the danger of the western land, she
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen analyzed over 3.5 million novels to accentuate a deep gender bias in literature. The study concluded, “Women are twice as likely as men to be described by their physical attributes—'beautiful' and’'sexy’ being the top two adjectives used for women. Conversely, men are most commonly described by their actions and attitudes—'righteous,’ ‘rational,’ and ‘brave,’ being the most common.” The University of Copenhagen's analysis underscores how gender biases in
The key word: force. The snow became a worthy opponent to the outcasts’ inner fire until the duel became a dance: a tango with the tundra of sorts. The violent twisting and stepping went on until Mother Shipton gave her finishing dip, a dramatic exit which suits her well. The fiery chill danced and danced until the bitterness and anger simmered away, so again it matched to them and became a gentle ballet and “the wind lulled as if it feared to waken them
in the beginning of the story when Harte talks about the people that will be banished later on in the story. Harte described the characters using familiar western types. The Duchess, a prostitute, another who had won the title of Mother Shipton, a witch, and Uncle Billy a suspected sluice robber and confirmed drunkard. The use of local color is shown as Harte describes the characters appearance. Bret Harte also uses local color in the dialogue that he gives to his group of characters
Have you ever thought someone was flawed because they’re part of a certain religion, gender, or personal aspect, such as hair color, and they turned out to be the opposite? When this occurs, it is called local color or stereotyping. In The outcasts of Poker Flat, Harte uses local color to educate his readers what can result when we judge others by their cover and manifests that the outward appearance of someone’s circumstances are not always what they seem. Local color is the main theme of Harte’s
Yeti “There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt” (Charles de Gaulle). Cryptids denote animals or creatures whose existence has yet to be scientifically proven. The yeti or as the Sherpa people (mountain people from Nepal) say “meh-teh” meaning man bear remains one greatest cryptids. Yeti’s height ranges between five to seven feet tall, having large feet with a pronounced big toe, and long white or brown hair covering its whole body. The weight of the yeti is estimated
profession of gambling but his bond with Tommy when they meet again changes him not only him but Tommy and Piney’s innocence change all the outcast for the better “the innocent was holding forth apparently with equal effect, to Mr. Oakhurst and mother Shipton, who was actually relaxing into amiability”(Harte). It was Oakhurst’s bond with Tommy that saved him from the loneliness he was
Authors, a lot of them surround us today, they are the person who enhances our imagination, or gives existence to anything that is plain and different. In American history, there were a number of poets and authors who rose to popularity. They changed people’s outlook on everything, and added a great amount of different things in American literature. Throughout this time, there were a couple of great poets and authors who helped create the local color school in American fiction. One poet who helped
and the duchess and mother shipton who are both prostitutes. They go up to the mountains and they meet a sweet couple about to get married at Poker Flat, Tom and Piney. They all get stuck in a cabin with little food, som they all have to ration it to survive. Uncle Billy eventually wakes up early and takes the mules and takes off so now the outcast can't travel anywhere and it shows a lot about uncle billy's character. Knowing that they're all going to die ms shipton gives her food to piney because
judgment based upon morals. The protagonist, John Oakhurst, along with the company of outcasts, makes his way across a rugged mountain range towards the town of Sandy Bar. At the insistence of the rest of the group, which consists of The Duchess, Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy, they delayed their journey. During this time, the group is met up with a young couple Tom Simson and Piney Woods, also referred to as The Innocent and The Child; neither of whom recognizes the group as criminals. Mr. Oakhurst awakens