Roaring Camp

A detailed Summary 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,

"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 numbered about one hundred men. One

or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were

"flush times," and the Luck was with them"(12). The men gave the baby the

well because they had Luck. They found out they weren't too lucky when the

clean, and conservative because of the warmth of a child. Tommy Luck

Roaring Camp." The men felt that as long as they had Tommy, they had the

The men at Roaring Camp change from rough, dirty, and loud, to kind,

"It was wonderful how many treasures the woods and hillsides yielded

Approximate Word count = 689
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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