Redeeming Qualities of Characters

Redeeming Qualities of Characters from The Outcasts of Poker categoric In The Outcasts of Poker politic, each immoral character has save qualities. Mother Shipping, a brothel owner, is the prototypic to make the greatest sacrifice for some other shows one of her keeping qualities and her motherly nature. The Duchess, a prostitute, shows her redeem qualities through with(predicate) being almost like an elder sister to Piney. And tail Croakers, who despite his better knowledge of the situation, continues on with the group of outcasts and their one-year-old friends and continues to elf until his unexpected end.Despite their lowly characteristics, these three characters put forth amazing save qualities which make them much higher than the hypocritical townspeople who banished them from Poker Flat. Mother Shipping is banished from Poker Flat for being a brothel owner. Despite this low standing part of her she has several redeeming qualities that redeem her from her retiring(a) mistakes. The first redeeming quality she shows is her motherly nature toward not only Piney but the Duchess as well. Such as when she requested Piney not to chatter (p. 88) when Piney said reckon now youre utilize to graceful things at Poker Flat (p. 88) this being her protecting the Duchess from embarrassment and protecting Pines innocence. She also seems to show this align of her to Croakers as when she mentions that el didnt say cards once during that evening (p. 488) almost like a mother doting on the fact that her son had interest in something else be cheeks his interest such as videotapes today, Sauerkrauts equivalent weight being card spicys. Another redeeming quality she has is her sacrificing herself for Pines sake. At midnight on the tenth day she c every last(predicate)ed Croakers to her side (p. 490) and tells him that she is dying.She tells him not to waken the kids (p. 490) and take the bundle she is using as a pillow. Within the bundle is her rations for the p ast week and she tells Croakers to me to the (p. 490) and points at Piney. After she has done this she turns to the wall and passes away in her sleep quietly. This Mother Spittoons go along redeeming quality since she makes the greatest sacrifice for Piney and suffers for a week before dying Just for the young miss. This also plays into her quality f being motherly and trying to protect Piney by saving her rations for the girl knowing that they would not make it and run out food in due time.The Duchess is banished from Poker Flat for being a prostitute. Despite this immoral occupation she has several redeeming qualities. One of her redeeming qualities is that she protects Pines innocence. She protects Pines innocence by not telling her of what she was back in Poker Flat. She goes along with keeping the secret of not only her own past but Mother Spittoons and Sauerkrauts when Croakers says mind out the truth about us all when they find out anything, he added significantly, and ther es no good frightening them now (p. 488).The Duchesss other redeeming quality is that she distracts Piney from their current situation so she wont be worried. She distracts the girl by directing Piney in the rearrangement of the home(a) of the cabin with a taste and tact that opened the blue eyes of that provincial maiden to their fullest extent. (p. 488). This litigate of the Duchess completely brings Pines attention away from what is going outside and the events tit Uncle Billy and foc social occasions her on the cabin and its furniture as well as the Duchesss knowledge of fine things.Croakers is banished from Poker Flat for gambling. One of Sauerkrauts much smaller redeeming qualities is when he insists on exchanging his own riding horse, Five Spot, for the sorry mule which the Duchess rode. (p. 485) so as to cheer not only her up but put the rest of the party into closer sympathy (p. 485), or a better mood. Another redeeming quality he has is that he stays with the party a nd the vox populi of deserting his weaker and more pitiable companions never perhaps occurred to him. (p. 486) even though the others are all drunk and he, since potable interferes with the mind, is completely sober. Another redeeming quality he has is that he doesnt think Billy has stolen their rides but he had instead wandered from the camp and had accidentally stampeded the animals. (p. 487). Another redeeming quality he has, which takes place in his past, is that he gave Tom back his money after a game of poker, or as he says a little game which got him some forty dollars (p. 86) from the boy, but instead of keeping it he takes Tom and tells him over a good little man, but you cant gamble worth a cent. Dont try it over nutrient agar (p. 486) and gives him his money back. Another redeeming quality Croakers has is that he gives Tom the snowshoes he has. Though Croakers could sacrifice used the shoes himself he showed him the pair of snowshoes, which he had fashioned from the o ld pack-saddle. (p. 490) and gives them to him telling the young man to use the shoes to save Piney to go to Poker Flat. Croakers even shows him the way far as the canon (p. 90). Sauerkrauts final exam redeeming quality is that at the end even Hough he had make it he kills himself because the others had not, except for Tom, which make him once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. Even though he had been strong through it all and had made it out of the cabin and got Tom to Poker Flat, he could not go on knowing that the others had died not just from the conditions but for each other and with nothing else to do, with nothing else in his hand, he ended the game that he called life.Mother Shipping, a brothel owner, makes the greatest sacrifice for Piney and her motherly nature being her most distinguishing redeeming qualities. The Duchess, a prostitute, shows her redeeming qualities by protecting Pines innocence and distracting her from the streak of bad lu ck the party came upon. And John Croakers, who despite his better knowledge of the situation, continues on with the group of outcasts and their young friends by staying with them, helping them, and not objective others by what they had done in the past all the way up until his unexpected end which is another one of his redeeming qualities.Despite these characters lowly characteristics, these three put forth amazing qualities, actions which many could not have done, which make them much higher than the hypocritical townspeople who banished them from Poker Flat and cleanse them of their past mistakes allowing them all to pass on in peace which made it so that you could scarcely tell who had sinned.