Authors often use naturalism to illustrate a situation in which a single character or group of characters are subject to the laws of nature that are beyond their control including God, nature, and people. ... The regionalism demonstrates the western setting in which the characters are in. ... Landmarks of the narrative exhibit the site of the story's background. 3 In that advanced season the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills into the dry, cold, bracing air of the Sierras. (Harte 396) The Sierra Mountains are spoken of as the background of th...

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