Through descriptions of the chivalrous snake, the conflicted man and the twilit setting, the author creates sympathy for the rattler and feelings of anger, pity, and disappointment for the man. When the author describes the
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 use of this language helps add to the realism of the book. Steinbeck also uses great description throughout of mice and men. Steinbeck uses great imagery in descriptions for example ‘A water snake slipped along the pool, its head held up like a little periscope.’ This particular simile shows the connection between the ways that both animals and Humans had to live. The snake is on the lookout for food however is aware of his surroundings and watching out for potential attackers, just like George and Lennie. Foreshadowing is uses throughout the majority of the novella, it all starts when George tells Lennie to hide in brush if he gets into any trouble like he did in weed.
To deceive is to give a false impression towards someone. Macbeth, the main character and many others do just that. In the play the characters have a different side to them then shown. “Look like an innocent flower /but be the serpent under it” (Macbeth I, IV, 65-66) Lady Macbeth reassured this to Macbeth explaining how they would get away with murder. Being deceitful is wrong and can lead you down a path of many lies.
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’ ”
However, courage that qualifies heroism is greater than that. According to “Eve’s Daughter”, courage in the term of heroism is the courage to sacrifice oneself to benefit the others (Mariam 165). She also explains that a hero most likely has a physical and mental strength to achieve a goal which is more important than life (165). Edward Bloom definitely has this quality. For example, while Edward is resting under a tree by a river, he sees Cottonmouth, a poisonous snake that can kill a person within a second after biting, is swimming toward a bathing woman.
Jessica Burcham Advanced Comp Prof. Koelling October 1, 2013 Sweat By: Zora Neale Hurston Sweat is a short story written with a southern dialect. I think the story is about karma and how one should respect others at all times. Delia shows Sykes that he should have respected her in the beginning. There is a snake involved in the story that symbolizes evil and death. (this sentence seems a little odd or out of place) “Sykes, what you throw dat whip on me like dat?
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 opening and closing his novel in nature, Steinbeck is able to connect and compare the actions of his characters with the natural world. George and Lennie disrupt a peaceful scene in the opening; the killing of a snake by a heron prefigures the tragedy in the final chapter. Not only does this way of structuring the novel give it a feeling of wholeness, it also reinforces Steinbeck's central point about Lennie's incompatibility with the social world. He doesn't fit in the shared spaces - the bunk house, etc. - while, in contrast, he romanticizes
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