Outcasts Of Poker Flat

Words: 278
Pages: 2

The Outcast Of Poker Flat by Bret Harte is about four people who are exiled because of who they are and what they do for a living. In this short story, characters will go through things in life that are inevitable. During the winter time, freezing to death is something that cannot be avoided if they’re not living in good conditions. “Feathery drifts of snow, shaken from long pine-boughs, flew like white-winged birds, and settled about them as they slept.” (Harte 32)
“They slept all that day and next, nor did they waken when voices and footsteps broke the silence of the camp.” (Harte 33) The outkasts living outside at a camp; did they really think surviving the winter storm was possible? People stealing things is another thing that also cannot