American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1018 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
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The idea
A town expels four undesirables, trapped by snow with two young travellers. The gambler gives away his rations and dies with a note pinned to a tree, and the Duchess dies holding another woman so the snow cannot tell them apart.
In practice
Four outcasts, one snowstorm.
Where people slip
The moral reversal is the story's design.
Your place on the trail
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