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
He recalls when he went to the tobacco store and found a rattlesnake. Huck killed it and put it in Jim’s blanket that night. Unfortunately, the snake’s mate came and bit Jim. Jim told Huck to skin the snake and roast a piece of the skin. Jim said if he ate it, it would help heal him.
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
Though Delia was once in love with Sykes she now feels mostly hatred towards him. In this passage from Zora Neal Hurston’s short story, Sweat, Delia’s husband, Sykes, has been bitten by the snake and is begging for mercy. Instead of helping him, Delia just stands there and watches her husband die. Early on Delia tells Sykes that he will reap what he has sewn and indeed Sykes does end having to reap what he has sewn. In other words she is talking about karma and what goes around comes around.
This statement, which was said about George and slim after Lennie’s death shows how little Lennie’s life was worth to the other people in the book. Lennie’s death is only one of two mercy killings that are going to be talked about. Kay Gilderdale gave her suffering daughter Lynn a cocktail that would end her life in December of 2008. Lynn was suffering from ME for 17 years and wanted out. “Her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed” (Laville1).
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.
Scout points out that the teacher’s own actions speak louder than her words and mentions that the teacher is being hypocritical because she herself is prejudice gainst the black people of their very own community, “How can you hate Hitler an’ turn around an’ be ugly about folks right at home” Hypocrisy is shown when people of Maycomb believe that they should treat everyone equally but really they are going through a very prejudiced trial in their town, “We American people don’t believe in persecuting anyone” 245 is said during the tea party scene by one of the ladies. This comment coming from a group who is supportive of persecuting an innocent black man at the time. The missionary ladies are not really sincere about helping black people because in their own town there are black people who they disregard as being people at all. They talk about how they need to be supportive of black people in another country but they are anything but supportive to those in their own
One night a women name Wing sneak in some medicine to save Mrs. Roberts because she was really sick and people didn’t notice but among the girls they have a snitch in group. Next day morning the Japanese soldier Captain Tanaka burned Wing alive in front of all of us as a warning not to disobey and do anything we want. This is really bad
The grief, the loneliness, and hearing others around them discuss the issue only add to their problems. We also understand that no matter how heartbreaking the news sounds, our grief is only a small part of how their family feels. A couple of months ago we heard about Sarah Stevenson, the 14-year-old daughter of James Stevenson, who was raped and murdered brutally when she was walking home at night. We have heard many stories of what may have happened, but have
In the beginning of their lives, they were the prettiest girls in Tarumi and were full of themselves, but after getting leprosy, they are brought down to Earth and humbled when they dishonor their families and are not able to face their peers. After her family finds out about the disease, he can't accept it and keeps trying to find cures for her disease. She was extremely sad for dishonoring her family and being labeled by society for being diseased. When she's taken to Yamaguchi, it is complete horror since there were bodies of rotting flesh and she had to adjust. Sachi went insane because she wasn't used to these living conditions.