Outcasts of Poker Flat

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Outcasts of Poker Flat

• By
• Eddie Tomasek
• Sara Fassett

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Thesis or Claim

• The thesis or claim of this short story is if you
  decide to become an outcast of a party the
  loneliness will eventually catch up to you and
  you become depressed. This will ultimately
  result in severe consequences

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Tone or Attitude

• The tone of the story starts off in a dramatic
  tone because a man is sat to be hung to set an
  example. The tone shifts to optimism when guests
  arrive at the cam but is short lived when almost
  all hope is lost when most of the camps supplies
  are stolen.

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Purpose

• The purpose of the short story is to reveal the
  affects of being stranded and the sufferings
  caused by loneliness

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Audience and Occasion

• The audience Harte was aiming for was to those
  who try to outcast themselves from everyone else.
  He does this to show people the harsh realities
  of being secluded from everyone else.

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Evidence or Data

• The evidence Harte uses to support or prove his
  thesis is with the death of Mr. Oakhurst. Mr.
  Oakhurst was supposed to be the strongest of his
  stranded camp but soon drifts off into his own
  world which leads to an apparent suicide.

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Appeals

• Feelings of sadness and loneliness
• Mr. Oakhurst remains calm and collected
• Acceptance of their fate, which is to die
• Death either by freezing, starvation, or suicide
• You've starved yourself" said the gambler.
  "That's what they call it," said the woman...and
  passed quietly away

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Assumptions and Warrants

• One who leads a dishonest life will not be
  trusted by others, and those people will not be
  trusted by anyone and ignored by everyone.

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Style

• Uses lots of description to show characters
  emotions and thoughts.
• The story moves at a steady pace and keeps the
  reader interested
• Irony And pulse less cold, with a Derringer by
  his side and a bullet in his heart, though still
  calm as in his life, beneath the snow lay he who
  was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of
  the outcasts of Poker Flat."