When it comes to literature, regionalism is when a story focuses on characters, dialect, customs, topography, and many other features of a specific region. Some authors you might recognize are Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and Willa Cather. If you don’t recognize those names you might remember their most popular stories like, My Ántonia, O Pioneers, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While all of these authors use regionalism, they all use it in different ways. Out of all the three authors I’ve listed, Mark Twain is (in my opinion) one of the most well-known and popular, and just like the other two authors, Twain has his own way of using regionalism, for example, in …show more content…
At the beginning of the book Twain tells us that "In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect, the extremist form of the backwoods South-Western dialects; the ordinary "Pike-Country" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last" (pg. 108). Twain guides us into the scene so we feel as if we are in the story. The grammar, sentence structure and words compose Huck's language and lets the us get a feel for his character and the customs of the region he comes from. The stories he describes throughout the book gives us an idea of the place he lives and travel’s in. Bret Harte’s stories have characters with the traits of the people at the time living in the Wild West. For example, in the book Outcast of Poker Flat the characters in the story are a gambler, a madam, a prostitute, and a town drunk. All of the different characters in the story are similar to people living in that time period and a realistic description of the environment. Another example is The Luck of