Who Is Bret Harte's Hidden Humanity Among The Roaring Camp?

Bret Harte was a nineteenth century American author and poet. He is best remembered for his short fiction stories featuring gamblers, minors, and other figures of the California Gold Rush. Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” manages to be tragic without tipping into melodrama, and rustic without tripping over its local color. It is also a balancing act between the potentially new plot of a newborn baby boys effect within an all-male wild mining community, and Harte’s method of seeing “Hidden Humanity Among the Sordid.” His style and sympathies allow us to keep our distance but shed a tear at the end of the story. The Roaring Camp is set between California’s Sierra Hills and a large flowing river. The camp consisted of immigrants ready to gain a share of the newfound gold. The men were from all parts of the world with different cultures and backgrounds. As Harte explains the story, this also brought incoming …show more content…
It could symbolize life, and it may also be a Christian symbol. After the birth, the baby revives the spirit of the camp, giving the men a new life. The men who were rough and wild cleaned themselves up and acted with decency. Their tenderness and solitude was extraordinary and definitely out of character for them. Tragedy strikes the camp when a flood destroys both Luck and his protector. In conclusion with Brett Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp” Thomas Luck brings life back into the uncivilized mining camp. The miners decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting. They become cheerful, vegetation begins to grow, and they discussed building a hotel to attract visitors. However, when a flood swept the camp. “The Luck” had disappeared. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is a short story written by Bret Harte of the redemption of a wild, vicious, and coarse settlement, by the purist and loveliest feelings and influences that can touch a