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Roaring Camp - Research Paper

Roaring Camp

The Regeneration of
"And so the work of regeneration began is "(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.

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Roaring Camp will

go through a regeneration of a lifetime. All of the men at the mining camp

will strive to make Roaring Camp a suitable place for a baby to live. The

very first signs that the men are in the process of change is when they went to

see the baby for the first time. They walked in a single file line and in an

orderly fashion. Many gave the baby a contribution. The sorry state of the

camp and the men under went change immediately after the arrival of the

baby.

"Almost imperceptibly a change came over the settlement"( 9). The

new baby was given the name Tommy Luck, but was known around the camp

as "The Luck." The men made sure that Luck was scrupulously clean. The

men decided it was time to under go changes themselves. "The reflections of

the latter on the appearance of Roaring Camp tended to produce stricter

habits of personal cleanliness"(9). The men wore clean shirts and moral and

sanitary laws were not ...

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Added: 6/22/2005 07:30:44 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
Words: 730
Pages: 3

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