Regionalistic Similarities And Differences Two stories with two different settings, plots, and characters and yet they have many similarities, with of course a few differences as well. There are many realistic similarities and differences between “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “the Outcast of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte. Between the characters, plots, settings there are exceptional similarities and differences . The regionalistic qualities really shine through in all of these things. First, the settings in both stories have few similarities, but many differences. In “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” the setting is taking place in the west in Angel’s mining camp. In “The Outcast of Poker Flat” the setting is too in the …show more content…
The first similarity is that both of the characters Jim Smiley, in Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and John Oakhurst , Outcast of Poker Flat, are both foolish men lead on by strangers. The stranger in Outcast of Poker Flat is the weather. The line “As the shadows crept slowly up the mountain, a slight breeze rocked the tops of the pine-trees, and moaned through their long and gloomy aisles” (Harte) shows that the weather was an enormous player in how the game was unraveled. In Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Jim Smiley was fooled by a stranger that he wanted to race frogs with. He left his frog in the hands of someone who only wanted to be mischievous and cheat his way through life. In the line “And he ketched Dan'l by the nap of the neck, and lifted him up and says, "Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound!" and turned him upside down, and he belched out a double handful of shot.” (Twain) the guy filled the frog up with shot so he would not be able to do anything as he weighed too much to even …show more content…
Jim Smiley is a dumbstruck guy. He thinks everything she be about how his frog is the best frog, just as John Oakhurst feel about himself. Jim has a big head, exactly like John does. In this line” "Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."” (Twain) It shows Jim has a full of himself attitude and will not let anyone tell him anything different than that his frog is the best around. In this line “Mr. Oakhurst's calm, handsome face betrayed small concern in these indications.” (Harte) it seems as if John Oakhurst knows for a fact he is a handsome man. Jim Smiley was a go get ‘em kind of guy and John Oakhurst seemed like a laid back kind of guy. The absolute
The short stories, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, written by Ambrose Bierce and Bret Harte respectively, share similar conflicts, notions, and themes. In Bierce’s story, a man is being held for execution for his crimes in the Civil war as a part of the Confederacy; as he imagines himself cleverly escaping the military executioners through a river under the bridge, until his seemingly brilliant streak of luck ends, and he dies from the noose he never left. Similarly, in Harte’s story, an entire town in California during the gold rush is stuck with again, seemingly brilliant luck, when Thomas Luck is born, only to have that hope crushed when Thomas is killed
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
Have you ever read short stories by ray bradbury? In this essay i will be taking you through the similarities and differences i found while i was reading the three stories. I will also be discussing the characters and how they helped to give a better picture of the settings. Shall we begin.
First, Mark Twain uses educated diction and obscure descriptions of Simon Wheeler in an attempt to entertain the general public reading the newspaper “The Saturday,” the newspaper where Mark Twain published his original version of his short story. To begin, Mark Twain uses the character of Jim Smiley to interest the reader and keep them hooked at the obscure personality of Mr. Smiley and his frog. Jim Smiley, a man addicted to gambling and competition, fools others through deception and false manipulations and gains the reader’s attention through his dedication to win and compete. Through clever manipulation of words, Jim downplays the skill of his...
Many times in literature we can make assumptions in which a few major characters from two completely different stories can have much in common. Authors like Coraghessan Boyle of Greasy Lake and Raymond Carver of Cathedral demonstrate this perfectly. We as readers of these brilliant works can find ways to compare and contrast these in the sense that they are quite similar. From what we can tell both the narrator in Greasy Lake and the Narrator in Cathedral have a lot in common even though they come from completely different worlds. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake”, the narrator tells a coming of age story of himself and two other teenage boys who think that they epitomize the image of “cool” and go to the Greasy Lake to
The comparison and contrast between these two stories is evident. They both developed as characters in similar settings but have different situations and outcomes. They differed in their goals and how they would achieve their goals and their mental health status sets them apart. These stories have contrast and similarities, over all the differences outweigh the comparisons.
According to a criticism on the short story in the second volume of Short Stories for Students, writers of local color attempt to exaggerate cultural differences (Schmidt 27). The genre of writing generally focuses on unsophisticated characters in a specific part of America (Schmidt 27). In Twain’s short story, the narrator travels from eastern American to a western mining town in search of Leonidas W. Smiley. When he is trying to obtain information about the man he is searching for, he encounters Simon Wheeler, the stereotypical western frontiersman who rambles on about a man named Jim Smiley that had a pet frog who could jump higher than any of the other member of his
Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story with the lesson that what goes around comes around. In this short story, which first appeared in 1856 and his first successful story, Twain uses local customs of the time, dialect, and examples of social status in his story to create a realistic view of the region in which the story takes place. The way that the characters behave is very distinctive. Dialect is also used to give the reader a convincing impression of the setting in “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”. The social status of the main characters in this story also was something that Twain took into account in writing this story. Mark Twain is a realist who concentrates on the customs, dialect, and social status of specific regions of the country.
Written two centuries separated, "Youthful Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates are two apparently distinctive stories. Nonetheless, if took a gander at nearly, a few components could be entwined. Every story has a comparative perspective, yet the story is told from two alternate points of view. A few topics are one of a kind to the stories, however profound inside similitudes could be found. The creators close their stories in two separate ways, however the endings are to some degree the same. These two stories hold components that are clearly differentiating, yet similar in the meantime.
The story has also been published with two other titles, such as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In in, the narrator retells a story that he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in the same Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him, saying “If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he’ll bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if accepted him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico” (“Samuel
While reading different stories, you can find many similarities between the texts. For example, Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are two stories that have many similarities. Throughout the story, the characters have many of the same traits. Similar events take place in the two stories. All these events lead both stories to a tragic ending. Stories can be similar in many ways. The characters, the setting, and the story line itself. Stories can also be very different. One may talk about an event that will break your heart, while another might bring a smile to your face. The two stories The Man to Send Rain Clouds and Old Man at the Temple have many similarities and differences in their settings due to the place, time, and culture.
In the two short stories, Shooting an Elephant and the Things They Carried there are certain similarities and differences that George Orwell and Jimmy Cross hold. Each character in the short stories has there own different situation they are in, but they both are in a foreign land and they both have to take orders and do what there country is asking of them. However, even though each situation is different they both deal with some of the same emotional issues throughout each story.
Even though these two books may seem very different, they also share many similarities. Though they are not related through their plots, they definitely share some very important themes and resemblance of characters. Through these similarities, two different stories in completely different time frames and locations can be brought together in many instances.
The common elements in the two stories are the wolf, Little Red (Riding Hood/Cap), her grandmother, and her mother. The beginnings of the stories are also similar: Little Red?s mother sends her to grandmother?s house because the grandmother is ill. Both stories mention that Little Red is personable, cute, and sweet. This is something that, on initial inspection, seems irrelevant but holds a deeper meaning for the symbolism behind the story. In both stories, the wolf, wandering through the woods, comes on Little Red and asks where she is going. When Little Red responds that she is going to visit her sick grandmother, the wolf distracts her with the suggestion that she should pick some flowers so that he can get to her grandmother?s house first. The wolf arrives at Little Red?s grandmother?s house before Little Red and disguises his voice in order to be let in. When he is let into the house, he promptly devours the grandmother and disguises himself in her clothes in order to eat Little Red as well. At this point, the two narratives diverge.
Despite the authors writing the stories decades apart, there are striking similarities between the protagonists. Defying the societal standard of the time, they rebelled against their marriages and strove for any feeling