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the setting of our story is 1850
Learning Targets:I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text
.I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)
.I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
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The story setting is 1850.
What is literary realism?
Realism is a literary movement that developed in the middle of the 19th century in France and then spread like wildfire throughout the rest of Europe, all the way to Russia, and then overseas to the US.
Realism, as you might guess by its title, is all about portraying real life. Realist writers write about regular folks—bored housewives, petty government officials, poor spinsters, poor teenagers—living ordinary lives. Let's face it: most of us don't live crazy exciting lives, after all. What Realist writers are really good at doing is showing us how even ordinary lives are meaningful, and—hello—always full of drama.
Some of these writers were reacting against the Romantic movement, which often stressed nature over culture, the solitary individual against society. Realist writers, unlike the Romantics, like to focus on groups of people. They give us the big picture: a panorama of a village, a city, or a society. And because Realism is about giving us the big picture, it tends to be associated with the novel genre, which is huge and flexible. Most of the famous Realists—like Tolstoy and Dickens—were novelists, who wrote pretty gigantic works. tomes Realism as a movement with a capital R ended sometime around the turn of the 20th century, but the techniques of Realism have lived on. Lots of novels written today are written in straightforward language about contemporary issues, for example. Hey, who can resist the soap operas of daily life, all packaged up as a 500-page slice-of-life novel?
Shmoop Editorial Team. “Realism.” Shmoop, Shmoop University, 11 Nov. 2008, www.shmoop.com/realism/.
Now that you know a little about Realism, let's review what we should look for in terms of the characters and plot.
Plot and Character in realism
1. 1. Character is more important than action and plot; complex ethical* choices are often the subject. *relating to moral principles. (What are "moral priciples"? These are the "rights and wrongs" that an indivdual or group chooses to live by.
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2. Characters appear in the real complexity of temperament and motive; they are in an explicable relation to nature, to each other, to their social class, to their own past.
(What this means is that one cannot automatically assume someone is going to behave in a particular way.)
3. Humans, and of course characters, control their destinies; characters act on their environment rather than simply reacting to it.
(This means that an idividual, the character, has choice in how to live life.)
4. Reality, as oppossed to imagination and feelings, mirrors the truth of an environment.
(There is no self-deception for a character; one knows the score.)
5. Class is important; the novel has traditionally served the interests and aspirations of an insurgentmiddle class. *rising in active revolt.
7. Realism is viewed as a realization of democracy. This is important for both character and plot.
6. In terms of the plot, the emphasis is on versimilitude (the appearance of of being true or real)
7. . For the plot, the events are plausible; that is seemingly reasonable or probable. (This is definitely not a literary style made for science fiction or horror tales.)
8. Morality in realism is relativistic; that is an action is right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the society in which it is practiced. The same action may be morally right in one society but be morally wrong in another.
9. Realists are pragmatic; they deal with thinks sensibly and realistically.
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Assignment: Below is a list of the characters in Bret Hart's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". Copy and paste the graphic organizer with the character names that follow, For each of the characters, write a complete sentence that illustrates an action of the character that mirrors the name. Make sure to use an adjective before the character's name. Keep in mind the qualities associated with realist characters.
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Model: John Oakhurst
The stoic John Oakhurst stood straight against the saloon wall and carefully surveyed its habitants.
Based only on his name, I thought of what an oak tree is like and the word "hurst", which means a hill.
anachronistic-putting something in the wrong time period
John Oakhurst: the gambler.
The Duchess: The Duchess is a young prostitute with a flair for the dramatic.
Mother Shipton: Mother Shipton is an older Madame who takes on a maternal role in the group.
Uncle Billy: Uncle Billy is a "drunk scoundrel".
What does a scoundrel do?
Tom Stinson: Tom Stinson, or Tom ‘The Innocent,’; he is travelling with Piney Woods.
Piney Woods: Daughter of a man who runs a small diner. She is eloping with Tom.
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Character Name
Remember the qualities associated with realist characters.
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For each of the characters, write a complete sentence that
illustrates an action of the character that mirrors the name.
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John Oakhurst, the gambler
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The Duchess, a young prostitute with a flair for the dramatic.
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Mother Shipton, an older Madame who takes on a maternal role in the
group.
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Uncle Billy, a "drunk scoundrel".
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Tom Stinson, ‘The Innocent,’; he is travelling with Piney Woods.
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Piney Woods, Daughter of a man who runs a small diner. She is eloping
with Tom.
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