Roaring Camp
The Regeneration of Roaring Camp
"And so the work of regeneration began is Roaring Camp"(9). The
regeneration referred to takes place in a California mining camp in 1850 after
the birth of Tommy Luck, son of Cherokee Sal, the camp’s prostitute, who
died giving birth. Sometimes one doesn’t realize how much he needs to
change until he gets a subtle push from fate. Just a little addition to the world
can cause a regeneration of a lifetime. Bret Harte demonstrates this idea in
the story "The Luck of Roaring Camp." In this story, Bret Harte shows that
even the roughest men can regenerate into kind, gentle, wholesome people,
with the love of a child.
"The term "roughs" applied to them was a distinction rather than a
definition(3). The men of Roaring Camp live the way they please. They have
no rules or regulations, nobody to impress, and nobody to tell them what to
do or how to act. "The assemblage......
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