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.
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
Michel Mouckomey Period 1 The Rattler Essay “The Rattler” describes the encounter of a man and a rattle snake in a desolate desert shortly after sunset. The two main characters that are the only characters in this situation, each must decide how to approach one another. Although the man would be considered in the snake’s boundaries, he chooses to take the snake’s life for the sake of people at the ranch. The reader soon distinguishes the good intentions of the man as breaking boundaries or survival of the fittest. 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.
This begins to frighten her so bad that her knees get weak; she does not know where to begin to look for the snake. Walking to her clothes, she hears the snake in her basket. Immediately she takes the lamp with the last match in it and runs to the kitchen in straight fear of the snake. After running, she finds out that the match blue out and she got frustrated because Sykes took the rest of the matches. Now the whole house is dark.
Similarly, both stories bring about an area of uncertainty, in which both main characters of the stories, Goodman Brown from “Young Goodman Brown” and Connie, from “Where are You Going, Were Have You Been?” are put in vulnerable positions. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Brown leaves his wife to complete a quick “errand” in the forest. There, he meets a man holding a suspicious stick with a snake illustration, looking, however; like an ordinary man. Brown classified this ordinary looking man as the devil shortly after the man asked him if he’d like to walk with the stick. Regardless, Brown did not return back to his home, to return to his wife, Faith, he continued to follow the old man.
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.
Sykes is constantly talking to Delia as if, he is communicating to one of his boys, he shows this by saying, “You sho is one aggravatin’ nigger women!” (Hurston 105). Sykes likes to scare Delia, knowing very well that she is afraid of snakes. One evening when he came home, and she was washing some dishes, “Sweating” like always. Sykes decides to put his black whip on her to make it seem like, it was an snake, getting ready to attack her. “Just something long, round, limp and black fell upon her shoulder and slithered to the floor beside her.
Grandpa an LT were fishing at the creek at noon time. Them, Grandpa put his hand between an snake and LT saving him from the snake. Unfortunately, GP in the act was bitten by the snake. 8. Little Tree runs off to find help.
However, Steinbeck quickly follows this image with the description of the “sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them.” (1) The image of the trees in Autumn that can drop thousands of leaves where they can crumple up and died out symbolizes how our dreams will eventually die out once we face reality. Additionally, the portrayal of the lizard running over the leaves symbolizes the hope and dreams that eventually get trampled over by the ugly reality. Therefore, Steinbeck uses the description of the sceneries to visualize the promise of the American Dream, but that dream should remain only dream as it eventually will die out. Furthermore, Steinbeck uses the bunkhouse on the ranch to symbolize the difficult struggle to try to achieve the American Dream while facing the cold harsh reality of life. From the description, the bunkhouse “was a long, rectangular building.
“What shall I do, O Utnapishtim, where shall I go? Already the thief in the night has hold of my limbs, death inhabits my room; whereever my foot rests, there I find death.” (page 89). Gilgamesh fears death coming for him faster now that he has fails the test. Utnapishtim informs Gilgamesh of a plant that restores youth, however on his way home Gilgamesh sets the plant down by a pond and a serpent is drawn to it and eats it. Back home in Urk,