In five pages this paper discusses the writings of Bret Harte in an analysis of the author's local color uses. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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him to California" in 1854" where he was to gain a great deal of material for his short stories (Anonymous San Francisco : History : Bret Harte (1836-1902) harte.html). He
wrote short stories, and poems, which detailed the colorful people of California in the late 19th century incredibly well. Like Mark Twain, whom he worked with for a short while
in California, he had an incredible gift for describing people so that we felt we knew them, envisioning them in all their colorful realities. In the following paper we examine
two of Hartes short stories, examining how they obviously offer us a colorful picture of the people and the time. The stories discussed are "An Ali Baba of the Sierras"
and "Johnnyboy." Local Color in "An Ali Baba Of The Sierras" From the first few lines of this short story we know this young boy to be one
who is perhaps similar to Twains Finn or Sawyer. Harte presents us with the following descriptions of the boy, offering us a very colorful look at one young man. In
this particular introduction to the boy we see that he has missed school once more, though he claims "it was no fault o his." (Harte NA). We find the following
lines to be incredibly colorful, illustrating that Harte clearly made use of the color around him as it existed within people: "Something was always occurring,--some eccentricity of Nature or circumstance
was invariably starting up in his daily path to the schoolroom. He may not have been "thinkin of squirrels," and yet the rarest and most evasive of that species were
always crossing his trail; he may not have been "huntin honey," and yet a wild bees nest in the hollow of an oak absolutely obtruded itself before him; he wasnt