"The Luck of Roaring Camp"
Character:
This story began with talking about a character named Cherokee Sal. In the way she is described she is not the most popular. She is the only woman in Roaring Camp. She has a bad reputation and people should stay away from her for their own good.
Literary Terms:
Protagonist: Cherokee Sal I believe is the protagonist of the story because she is not well liked.
Epithet: The epithet used to describe Cherokee Sal is sinful woman.
Epithet: Another word to describe Cherokee Sal was that she was a coarse, which means she was improper.
Theme:
A theme in this story, which I think is a major theme is of Cherokee Sal's sufferings. Cherokee is living in a time a lot different than we have now. How Cherokee is looked at by males is the typical double standards that females still face. Even though Cherokee is looked down on by the males of her camp, she has sympathy from a character named Sandy. In spite of the hate towards her, Cherokee Sal gave birth to a baby
Context:
My personal experience of learning about Native Americans help me to understand, describe and analyze this story. Also learning things in life help me to interpret this story. For example, I know what the word sinful means. This helped me to realize that they are describing the character Cherokee as a bad person. Also reading the bible has helped me to analyze Cherokee. Since she was described to be a sinful woman, this reminded me of the story of Adam and Eve. Since Adam and Eve were sinners.
The characters in this story are Native American. There are elements that inform us this. First of all, the title of the story is "The Luck of Roaring Camp". The word camp lets us know that this story may have to do with Native Americans. Also, the first character that is focused on is named Cherokee. I already know that Cherokee is a Native American name.
Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp".
Hi Laura, thank you for your post. For future posts, I would like you to review what a theme is, in literature. I've listed two of the links I listed in the "Writing a Literary Analysis Blog Post" page on the course wiki.
ReplyDeletehttps://literarydevices.net/theme/
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson800/theme.pdf
Here are some important ideas from those pages:
-- a theme is the central idea or ideas explored in the story.
-- A theme also can be expressed in a more abstract way as an idea or moral—the message of the story.
-- It is important to understand the difference between theme examples in literature with its subject.
-- Subject is a topic that acts as a foundation for a literary work, while a theme is an opinion expressed on the subject. Let’s understand what is a theme in literature.
-- If a writer may choose a subject of war for his story, and the theme may be his personal opinion that war is a curse for humanity.
The theme, or moral, of Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" is that slow and steady wins the race or consistency and perseverance is of more value than flash and speed.
In your post, you say that the character of Cherokee and her sufferings Is a theme, but that's not entirely correct. If the author is using that character and what happens to her as a theme, then what is he using her to say? What is he saying about her and her sufferings, through what he creates in the story?
Also, when you discuss the context of a story, you "Discuss how historical/cultural/personal/religious elements relate to or inform the reading you choose". In this case, that would mean discussing something about the time period in which this story was written, or something about the gold prospecting camps of the 19th century. That is the context of the story, historically and culturally.
Hi Laura, I also agree that the double standard that she faces is still very much present and that is something that should change. I also think that one of the themes is hope because everything begins to change because of the baby and the want to bring a better environment for the child that is eventually called luck which is what he represents for the camp.
ReplyDeleteHello Laura, You have done a good job going into detail describing and analyzing the different elements and parts that made the text. The theme you discussed of Cherokees sal sufferings and how he was looked down upon by others I think is more of an idea or an issue he faces rather than a theme in the text. What exactly is suffering? what you described as suffering I think is more of an issue he is facing. So what would be a theme in the story? I was also thinking about what if you used some quotes to back up some of your ideas, I think that may help to make your post and ideas more cohesive. That is always something I need to remind myself of also. Overall the detail you went into and talking about your ideas was well done but I think you mixed up some of the terms and what there meaning is.
ReplyDeleteHeeey, Laura!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I didn't read this story, I chose a different one. However, it was nice getting to know what this story is about through your perspective. I found myself interested in the story after reading your post, so I'll probably read it. I also like reading my classmates Literary Analysis, it's even more interesting when you guys break the stories into pieces!!
I found it interesting that fact that you mentioned have read the Bible. I usually don't see people mentioning religious things outside the church, that's why I was so surprised. Are you a Christian, too? just like me! I also like that you related Cherokee Sal to Adam and Eve. What if the story was a metaphor to Adam and Even? Lol I'm just wondering since I haven't read it yet.
However, I feel that I can't agree with you entirely toward the theme subject. You said that the theme is Cherokee Sal's suffering, but it seems more like the plot than a theme itself. According to what I understood from your post, I'd say that the theme may be marginalization? Well, I'm just guessing you know...
Hi Laura!
ReplyDeleteI actually really liked this reading. So much I've decided to use it for my project. I feel like everyone has their own take on this reading and I like how you described the theme as being societies take on normalities (which is what I took from it to, just slightly different. Great post.