The short story The Rattler is a story based on the theme of man vs. nature. A man becomes conflicted when he encounters a rattle snake while walking in the desert. This very man is put into a position where he needs to determine whether or not he should kill this reptile. The man’s final decision is what helps the reader connect with the characters of the passage. In the short story The Rattler the author uses language and details as tools to help convey the point of view of the man, the actions of the snake and the setting in order to persuade the reader to feel empathy for the man and sympathy for the snake. The author’s use of language and details leads the reader to empathize with the man. The man is having a nice walk after sunset until he runs into a snake. He states that he is not satisfied by “the sport in taking life” and only did it when he was “obliged” …show more content…
The man and snake meet as the man is taking a walk. He had walked into the desert “after sunset”. The darkness makes the man more accessible to risk and hazard. However, it is known for more animals to be alert and awake at night looking for food to hunt and eat. The man had stopped and examined the snake. He thought that he had been the only thing “abroad”. This shows that where they encountered was a secluded area not known to the man. If he walked where he was familiar with, he would expect these types of animals to be roaming around knowing it is their natural habitat. The desert glow sets a calming mood. After the gruesome event, the man recollects how he “might” have departed over the “twilit sands” had he let it go. Despite the killing of the snake, the man has remorse for the snake and wonders how it would have gone on over the beautiful landscape had it not been his duty to kill it. Contrastingly, setting allows the reader to empathize with the man and sympathize with the
2. It has a neutral connotation which enhances the tense tone created by the exchange between the man and snake. Its neutrality implies that the man and snake have an equal chance in their fight for survival.
In “The Rattler”, the sudden and fulfilling tones reflect the reasons why the man decided to kill the snake. Seeing the snake was sudden for him, but the man had to choose between his morals and his duties in order to protect one life or the other. He decides to choose his duties of helping others to keep them from being in the situation as him in the future.
In the short story “The Rattler” a man is taking a walk out in the desert after sunset when he comes across a rattlesnake. The man’s initial response is to keep going on his way. After contemplating about the people back at the ranch, he decides to kill the snake out of fear that it might later come to hurt them. In “The Rattler” the author uses details about the setting, the description of the snake, and the man’s point of view to make the reader feel sympathy for the snake but also empathize with the man.
There has been a time at one point in a person’s life where they were given a task they did not want to do. Sometimes it has to be done. The the short story The Rattler, a mane is talking a walk through a desert setting. His walked was suddenly stopped when he saw a dangerous looking snake, at first glance anyway. He was faced with the task of killing the snake. When the task was complete, he was not thrilled. In The Rattler, the author creates the effect of empathy for the man and sympathy for the snake. The techniques used to achieve that are the description of the man, description of the snake, the setting.
The organization found within the passage of “The Rattler” illustrates to the reader how the once calm mood turns into one of hostility. At the beginning of the second paragraph, the reader notices how at first the snake’s body lay “undulant”. This moment shows although the snake is capable of attack, it has no intentions to harm the narrator. The mood seems to remain calm until not the snake, but the man, “dragged him out of it with his back broken.” This action exemplifies the mood only becomes hostile when the man initiates attack. Towards the end, the reader can see regret from the man of the “nasty sight”. Respect can be found for both characters as they are both trying to protect something dear to them – the man his fellow members of
His father does not match his steps to his sons or care if even he is following the routine. This means that the son must cling on for dear life. Death is inevitable and unavoidable, so he thinks that if he can emulate death then perhaps he can overtake his father. By becoming something greater, he is finally free from the dangerous shackles of blind devotion and can live as a free man. Not only is he hanging on hard, there are also double implications of the words “beat” and “dirt”.
In Mary Oliver’s poem “The Black Snake,” the narrator contemplates the cycle of life with the unpredictability of death. Mary Oliver’s work is “known for its natural themes and a continual affirmation of nature as a place of mystery and spirituality that holds the power to teach humans how to value one’s life and one’s place” (Riley). In the poem, The Black Snake, the narrator witnesses a black snake hit by a truck and killed on a road one morning. Feeling sympathy for the snake, the narrator stops, and removes the dead snake from the road. Noting the snake’s beauty, the narrator carries it from the road to some nearby bushes. Continuing to drive, the narrator reflects on how the abruptness of death ultimately revealed how the
Did you know that rattle snakes can camouflage itself in the desert? That makes it easier for them to strike their prey with their powerful fangs and dangerous venom that can shut down its preys nervous system kill it. In A.S. Patric the author of “The Rattler” affects the reader by making his audience feel sympathy for the man and the snake, and also teaching him/her about the struggles of decision making through his frequent use of figurative language, diction, and Mood in his passage. How would you feel if you had to make a decision on two hard choices? In the text Patric creates a sense of sympathy for the reader about the snake in the following text, “Then for a moment I could see him as I might have let him go” (Patric, pp.6).
We set our scene in the Mojave Desert, a small distressed town named Dirt meets an even smaller lizard who doubles as an unsuspected hero. He goes by many names, his real name, his stage name, and his avatar name but in reality this lizard with no names is an aspiring star on the rise who constructs the perfect rough and tuff character called Rango. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. He wonders at first how he can stand out when his natural instincts are to blend in. At the beginning of his journey Rango faces a series of thrilling situations that test the braveness of his character. He is victorious when dealing with these horrifying obstacles in front of him but they all end up “sinking even deeper into the quakemole of his own deception”.
World War I was a long, hard war that resulted in a catastrophic death toll with no real change in the world as to what it was before the war, because of this many people refer to it as an “unnecessary war”. Without World War I most people, believe that the world would have been generally the same as to what it had always been and so the loss of millions of lives had essentially been for nothing. World War I or the Great War, as it used to be referred to as, seemed to have been caused because of imperialism, nationalism, and militarism. Some of the major countries were fighting to be the best, they wanted the most advanced and proficient army and they wanted to expand their country and take over more territories and because of this major tensions
Life and death situations do not occur often and can easily involve the most difficult decisions a person can ever make. The story “The Rattler” presents one of these scenarios, in which a fierce battle between a man and a rattle snake takes place. Throughout the passage, language, and detail about the man, the rattler, and the setting invite the reader to feel either sympathy or empathy toward the man and the rattler.
Imperialism,-a more powerful country subjugating a weaker nation to it’s benefit, has been a part of human civilization for centuries, people take advantage of each other, its human nature.
We as people should not mess with any animal in their own territory. In the stories “A Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”, the main characters do not listen to this law of the jungle. In “A Sound of Thunder” a man named Eckels ventures into the past to hunt the tyrant lizard. In “Being Prey” Val Plumwood, a biologist, visits Kakadu National Park in Australia and becomes the target of a cold-blooded killer. These stories are very different but, very similar in setting, theme, and conflict.
Henry James presents American literature in The Beast of the Jungle altogether from a different perspective. In other words, the narrative forces the reader to read in between the lines in order to find out how light and darkness contributes to the story. James’s unique and vivid themes of seasonal and light/dark imagery also allows the reader to come up with many different possibilities of what the meaning of the story could be. The theme of light versus dark is prevalent throughout the story. Light is described as knowledge, wisdom and promise and darkness is described as confusion, depression and uncertainty. The Beast of the Jungle suggests two main reasons for the use of light and dark imagery: to create uncertainty on the reader to pinpoint who or what the beast is and to refer to Marcher’s belief that at some point in his life he would experience a traumatic event that would change his life.
What makes music great? Is this not the question that everyone asks themselves? What makes that one song so special, what makes that band so amazing? It is questions like this that I ask myself every time I listen to music; which in my case, quite a bit. There is just something about the music that speaks to you. I believe that the lyrics are a main part of what makes music great. The lyrics are what draw people in, it is what connects the listener to the performer.