Vocabulary
You will encounter these vocabulary words in the story.
Expatriated (adj) banished; exiled
Malevolence (n) a disposition to wish harm to others; ill will
Equanimity (n) evenness of temper; calmness
Anathema (n) a ban or curse accompanied by excommunication
Prescience (n) foreknowledge of events
Ominous (adj) foreshadowing evil
Jocular (adj) said or done as a joke
Pariah (n) a person who is hated and rejected by other people
Querulous (adj) complaining in an annoyed way
Expatriated- Denounced
Malevolence- Evil
Equanimity- Self control
Anathema- Abomination
Prescience- Insight
Ominous- Warning
Jocular- Funny
Pariah- Outsider
Querulous- Negative
Point of View
When a writer tells a story, that story is called a narrative. In a third-person narrative, each character is referred to as she or he or by name.
There are no first person pronouns (I, me, my, or mine) except in quotations.
The author uses 3rd person point of view when he allows the narrator to state the character's name; this allows the narrator to be more objective.
"As Mr. John OakhurstThe author uses 3rd person point of view when he allows the narrator to state the character's name; this allows the narrator to be more objective. , gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the 23rd of November, 1850, he The author is using third person pronouns suggesting that the narrator is third person. was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night."