Passing Of Grandson Heroism

“Outcasts” by Bret Harte and “The Passing of Grandison” by Charles Chesnutt are both local color stories, which is “a pleasant and often sentimental presentation of typical life in a certain definite locality that has characteristic speech, manners, and customs peculiar to itself. The pleasant portrayal of manners in the chosen locality is the primary aim of the local colorists or regionalists” (Local Color (Regionalism)-2 Notes). These two stories have heroism expressed in different ways, due to this different expression “Outcasts” is the better story and more worthy of study than “The Passing of Grandison” is. Although “Outcasts” and “The Passing of Grandison” have similar themes within their stories, after reading the two stories the reader will find that the characters in “Outcasts” have better intentions and are more real than the characters in

The most heroic act that stands out to the reader is what Mother Shipton does when she realizes the ration are low and how she goes about present the information to John Oakhurst. “At midnight on the tenth day she called Okahurst to her side,” she told him that she was going to die, to not waken the kids, and that he needed to give all of her food rations that she saved from the past week to the young girl (Harte 490). While the “Outcasts” had true heroism to try and save another life, “The Passing of Grandison” had fake heroism to try and save another life. In “The Passing of Grandison” the main character Dick Owens is the son of a plantation owner. Dick Owens heroic act is that he tries to free a slave named Grandison. His plan is telling his father he wants to go