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
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.
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.
He told jim that he wasn't scared of him, and that he didn't have a problem telling everyone where jim was hiding. Jim pleaded with Huck saying that he had not hurt a soul, he explained to Huck how he overheard Miss Watson talking about selling him to a slave trader and Huck changed his mind. On the island Huck goes back to his old ways and and plays pranks on Jim , he puts a snake on jim while he sleeps. It backfires on Huck though because the snake ends up biting jim. Jim and huck make a plan just incase someone try’s to come and find them.
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.
Esch comments that Skeetah never named the puppy, so he tells her to give it a name. She chooses Nella. Manny says that they should kill the puppy now to save it from suffering. Skeetah grabs the puppy’s head and twists, swiftly breaking its neck the way his mother used to kill chickens. Afterward, Skeetah takes off his clothes and gets into the water of the Pit to wash the contamination off him.
As Delia states, “whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly.” Maybe if Sykes were a faithful man and not so abusive, he would not be in the mess he is in now. Ironically Sykes having brought the snake home to kill Delia leads to his own demise. Therefore, the snake is not only Sykes but also Delia Jones’ protector in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”. “Sweat” is a perfect example of the sins that are committed will sooner or later be the death of those committing them. Sykes calls out to God in the end; however it is the Devil who seems to have a hold on
The chief complaint as stated by the patient was “I think I messed up with my behavior in the neighborhood and the police brought me here.” He had a flat affect, poor judgment, impulse control, concentration, attention span, and was also lacking insight, but he was cooperative and coherent. T.B is single, he used to work as a driver, but has been unemployed for five to six years, although he does have an associate’s degree. He has no medical history or history of drug, alcohol, or smoking, and no criminal history. T.B has no allergies, no access to a firearm, but he has had previous suicidal attempts in the past and was hospitalized for them. T.B has a mother, father, two brothers, and one sister, there is rarely any contact between them.
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
Although Grant initially doesn’t want to help Jefferson, he gradually changes throughout this book and accomplishes his goal of transforming him into a man. Jefferson, who was supposed to be meeting up with a friend to go fishing, ended up being convicted of murder. He was too ignorant to know that it was a bad idea to get into the vehicle with them and and ended up being accused of murder. Jefferson’s defense attorney defends him by calling him a hog. He says that Jefferson should not have been convicted of anything but stupidity.