He falls asleep on watch, causing him to be faced with a terrible choice when he wakes.
Who is Carter Druse?
100
A catastrophic natural disaster destroys this town.
What is Roaring Camp?
100
This theme is shown when Oakhurst returns the money he won from Tom and cautioned the young man never to gamble again.
What is Hidden Goodness?
100
This town is in the flatlands, and this town is over the mountain in a story of people facing desperate times.
What is Poker Flat and Sandy Bar?
100
This characteristic of local color finds these are often remote and very important to the story, as in The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
What is setting?
200
Cherokee Sal's son.
Who is Tommy Luck? or The Luck?
200
A group of citizens get a moral twitch and drive several people out of town.
What is The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
200
The theme of loyalty to country was most powerfully portrayed in these two stories.
What is Horseman in the Sky and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
200
The outcasts struggle to survive in this structure on the mountain.
What is a broken down (rough/falling down) cabin?
200
Local color also involves this _____-____ tradition, where
conflicts are described humorously and larger than life, as in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
What is tall-tale?
300
Tom's sweetheart who leaves town with him, planning to get married in Poker Flat.
Who is Piney Woods?
300
A young man is told to do his duty, which plays out in a very unexpected fashion.
What is Horseman in the Sky?
300
The theme of Cruelty in War was shown most powerfully in these two stories.
What is The Coup de Grace and A Horseman in the Sky?
300
The only story where the exact dates of the events in the plot are given.
What is The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
300
Local color also emphasized fear of this event, like how Kentuck had to clean himself up and stop drinking so he could be with The Luck.
What is change?
400
This man waits for years for his loved one to return. His friends help him deal with his grief.
Who is Henry?
400
The reason Henry's friends drug him so he can sleep, which happens once a year.
What is to prevent him going crazy on the anniversary of his wife's death.
400
Transformation occurred as a theme mostly in two stories where people changed in very powerful ways.
What The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
400
Local color focuses on this feature, which was based on the speech patterns and language use of a specific area of the country.
What is dialect?
500
He becomes the caretaker of The Luck because he has had experience with two families.
Who is Stumpy?
500
The reason Tommy Luck is given this particular name.
What is the miners believe he has brought luck to the camp.
500
Loyalty to a cause plays a prominent part in these two stories.
What are A Horseman in the Sky and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
500
This story is set in a very lovely little cabin, full of decorations and carefully tended flowers.
What is A Californian's Tale?
500
One aspect of local color is the lack of a complicated, sophisticated one of these, the events of a story.