While reading, feelings of anger towards the man’s actions are developed. When the man tried to kill the snake, he “reached into the paper-bag bush with [his] hoe, hacking about, soon [dragging the snake] out of it with his back broken.” Although the reader may condole with the man’s decisions since it was for a reasonable cause, he should not have killed the snake since he was clearly inexperienced (expressed by the word “hacking”). The man could have just as easily shoed the snake away with the hoe rather than using it so ineptly. The man could have found an alternative way to rid the area of the snake and when he doesn’t, the reader is disappointed because he thinks there’s no other possible action that can be made. The man states that “[his] duty was to kill the snake.” When the man uses the word “duty” it gives a sense that there are no other options and that it’s imperative that he does it.
Therefore, the snake can represent Delia’s protector, sin, death, or devil but it most certainly is a mirrored reflection of Sykes. Sykes routinely shows his lack of respect for Delia. One morning Delia, sorting laundry and wondering where Sykes has gone with her horse, becomes paralyzed by fear when suddenly something “long, round, limp, and black falls upon her shoulders and slithers to the floor beside her.” Again Delia is reminded of what a malicious man Sykes can be. He uses a bullwhip to scare her; she believes it is a snake. Delia
The danger that unsuspecting women and children would undergo would be too much for a man to worry about. “Abruptly I stopped short” and he says that his first instinct was that “[he] would go [his]” way ( ). He soon knew that was not an option and that he must kill this living creature. As the battle began, the snake “held his ground” while the man left for a short while, only to go to the “ranch house, get a hoe, and [return] ( ). The diction is written very well to point out what the man is feeling and helps the reader to infer just what the snake was emoting as
As he is walking around the house he suddenly runs into the snake and it bites him. Sykes screams out for Delia in so much pain. She hears the cries and debates on going in to help him but she was frozen in fear. Delia stays away, leaving him in pain. She slowly approaches him as he is on his hands and knees.
Even with the snake guarding the diamonds Perry was determined to get the diamonds. The snake ends up wrestling with Perry, and tries to swallow Perry. Perry then describes a, “towering bird” that would always rescue him. Throughout his childhood, the mysterious bird continued to
What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal. As the story goes on, Jim has repeatedly proved himself to be correct in Huck’s eyes, even thought Huck refuses to acknowledge it. XI. They’re After Us! (pg 52) Huck disguises himself as a girl to “slip over the river and find out what was going on” and he went to a lady who immediately found out that Huck was a boy
I think this is just can-do spirit. Another scene which impressed me most was that Cogburn’s saving Mattie. Because Mattie was bite by a poisonous snake. At the beginning, they rode the horse, but later, the horse was tired to death. So Cogburn had nothing to do take Mattie and run.
In addition. Peter picking on Ender ultimately made him stronger. Ender in the mind game, “Instead, he found a mirror. And in the mirror he saw a face that he easily recognized. It was Peter, with blood dripping down his chin and a snake's tail protruding from a corner of his mouth.” This is Ender’s worst nightmare – looking into a mirror, and seeing Peter watching him.
There was something disturbing in the way he described their love though. “He compared their love to a pair of snakes he's seen along a trail near Pinkville, each snake eating the other's tail, a bizarre circle of appetites that brought the heads closer and closer...’That's how our love feels’ ”
In the story “From Life on the Mississippi” Twain humorously uses satire, in his story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” he uses satire ironically, and in “The lowest animal” Twain uses satire to teach his readers a lesson. In Twain’s short story, “From life on the Mississippi”, he uses satire by sharing his experiences on becoming a steamboat pilot. He details how his boss meant well, but was very strict. For example Twain says, “My gun powdery chief went off with a bang of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives.” Twain uses satire in this quote because his boss doesn’t really sound like a gunshot but his strict personality and pompous questions made Twain describe his boss as a gun powdery chief. In Twain’s, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, he uses satire he uses satire to tell his readers that strangers shouldn’t be trusted so easily and can be costly if that trust is abused.