The super mom who wasn’t so super The mighty mom, who seems undefeatable, is terrified of a slithery serpent. Maybe she isn’t so super after all. “Sss,” rattles the snake, as mom tends to the garden outside. She walks down her patch of daisies, picking the dead brown cranny flowers and watering the other flowers. The sound of the snake left mom petrified, causing her to run inside away from all slithery, slimy organisms. Mom is afraid of every poisonous snake. The scare from the snake caused mom’s curiosity to rise. Her curiosity led her to do some research on snakes and to determine what kind of threat this snake in her garden is causing. Once she did some research, she came to the conclusion that she needed a professional to come and look at the snake with her so they could tell her whether the next step should be to eliminate this old pest. The professional told her to “just stay away from the snake’s and to not bother them and they won’t bother you”. So once she took the expert’s advice, she eventually overcame her fear of the snakes, and learned not to worry about snakes and just to let them be. …show more content…
The first step was exposure to snakes in order to establish some sort of level of comfort with the snake. So in order for her to accomplish this task,
She went to a pet store and asked the sales clerk “May I hold a few snakes with your
In the short story “Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurson, the setting takes place in the nineteen twenties in Florida and has many themes, such as marriage, society, religion, gender roles and ect. Hurson writes about the troubles of a woman who has to deal with her cheating and abusive husband, Sykes. He leaves a snake in their house to torment his wife, Delia, and when the snake bites him, Delia does nothing to help him and she is not wrong for that.
As she gets out of the plane she is scared that a snake is going to pop out of nowhere and eat her she runs to her mum as fast as she can.
At the beginning of the book the mother is seen as strong, and very aware of her actions. Otsuka writes, “The woman picked up the large shovel that was leaning against the trunk of the tree. She lifted it high in the air with both hands and brought the blade down swiftly on his head”(11). This action of killing white dog shows the reader how the mother is conscious of the fact that certain things need to be done, and that the situation she has been put in calls for certain real life actions. However as the book progresses we see the mothers surroundings, and ordeal take a toll on her state of mind.
There are three snakes, two copperheads and a timber rattler, squirming around in the plastic bin. Her brother knows snakes because he liked to catch them when he was a kid, and he’d told her that if you wanted to keep them still, the best way to go about it was to keep them in a sack or a pillowcase. The Preacher liked them riled up though—made the act look more impressive.
“The Rattler” Analytical Essay Authors often use literary devices to display to the reader a greater sense of depth within a piece of literature. The literary devices in “The Rattler” are used to create a fuller meaning within its story. Patric uses these devices to describe and explain the suspenseful encounter between a man and a snake. As a result, the story becomes much more intriguing to the reader’s eyes. In Patric’s “The Rattler,” the reader imagines the story’s events through the use of diction, detail, and point of view.
Luel is known for their wine merchants and marketing. Alani’s mother was a pottery marker. Alani’s father was a chef. The Vine’s family has a medium-sized sheep dog. Both parents worked on their farm and plantation. Earning the title of the best cheese & wine merchants in Luel. She and her parents are all Pseudodragon Skin Changers. Alani helped her parents with everything they would allow her. They treated her with great care and protection. The sheep dog was born with a fetal illness that caused it to pass away. Her father helped her burry the dog in the yard beside their house. Her father one day disappeared when he went into the forest to pick some of the local wild fruit. Alani’s mother went to try and find him. She later came back with no information. As the days rolled on, her mother grew sicker. Alani was soon left to do all of the chores as well as running the business. About a year later, Alani was doing her daily mother checkup. As she opened the door to her bed-ridden mother’s room; the strong scent of iron clogged up her lungs. On the bed, half of her mother was eaten with a small stump of a tree taking root in her mother’s stomach. The ten-year-old Alani tore the monster from her mother’s corpse. It’s maw was open, exposing it’s blooded sharp rows of teeth. Before it’s tendrils could grab hold of her – she snapped it in half. Taking it outside, she burned it. She spent of the day setting up a proper burial for her mother in the back
Once when snake was sleeping and he was hearing noises bump bump bump that was his friend alligator. That’s Simon. Then there was a bang dong ding dong. Do you like that, Simon? And then snake said to alligator, “I want something to eat,” and alligator said, “Come to my house.” Then the mother snake comes. Katie, you’re the mother snake. And she has six babies. Then a lion comes and the lion tries to get into the dream but he can’t. So he goes away.
her life demonstrates her fear and in the end what fear can do to a
The Moms.com negotiation has two roles: Kim Taylor as the buyer for WCHI (Independent television station in Chicago) and Terry Schiller as a syndicated sales representative for Hollyville, Inc. an international multimedia corporation that specializes in producing television shows and motion pictures. On this negotiation I played the role of Kim Taylor.
Aurora screamed “RATTLE SNAKE!!!” and she kept screaming for 10 seconds Aurora was very scared of snakes and Isabelle’s mom hated snakes while, Isabelle was only scared by aurora’s screaming not of the snake because she loved animals. Isabelle
The little child was immediately disregarded because of his age, which shows the standards of society. He was judged strictly on his time on Earth, when he could be presenting a large issue. The little boy’s fear in the beastie shows his innocence and ignorance. As he is solely concerned on being protected from this creature that many know does not exist, he is
The internal instinct that a mother carries within to protect her children was exhibited in Elisa's chrysanthemums, for there was "the wire fence that protected her flower garden" (280). Elisa protected her chrysanthemums by creating barriers to keep out intruders. However, Elisa had a barrier that was penetrated.
First, the quote chosen was showing how the mother was so fearful she was seeing things that were not there “my mother tell me about the bad man who lived in the basement and why I should never open the door again. He had lived there for thousands of years, she said,
Later, as she was helping her mother with chores, she said, “Ma, Sam wants me to go to his house to work on our frog report tomorrow, but I don’t want to miss our picnic.”
The heat awakens me from the fire as I lay against mama. I didn't want to stir her as I walked out of the cave. So I quietly escape the rapid heat of my home to the outside. It was the ending of fall and the beginning of winter. A cool breeze hit me as I strolled onto the moist grass where the morning dew fell. Stretching for the heavens with my claws held high. I let out a loud roar with the feeling of tiredness. While rubbing the crust out of my fearsome eyes. I started to look for a new place to sleep. Until mother starts to search for me after she awakens herself. As I looked high and low for a place where I can get some shut-eye. I soon discovered a den beneath the grass with stone like rocks for an inside wall. Which was placed right by a stunning waterfall with soothing sounds of the water unleashing into the pool of water beneath it. I crawled into this happy place, relaxed, rolled up into a ball, and ready to escape back to my dreams...Suddenly, “HAHAHA! I’m having so much fun, daddy!”. It startles me at first to see such creatures. The little one was hairless in places except for the two Pacific parts on the face and hair that fell behind it. Also, the big one looked older like my mama but hairless like the little one. They interested me a great deal, I wanted to learn more. As I watched their movement, the older one finally announced, “It's time to go honey.”. “Awee…”, said the little one with a disturbed look as water dripped from her eyes. “We will come another