Literacy Analysis of “The Rattler” 09/01/13 In “The Rattler”‚ the narrator came across a snake while “pleasantly” taking a stroll within the evening’s path. What began as a peaceful‚ “sweet”‚ and “pleasant” late afternoon transformed into a daunting “abrupt” scene. The author used excellent point of view‚ diction‚ organization‚ and syntax to express emotions of hostility between the snake and himself. The first person point of view coveys the authors wisdom of responsibility to people and animals
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Eva Wambura 8/29/12 Period 2 The Rattler Rough Draft In the passage “The Rattler” the writer uses details about the man‚ details about the snake‚ and details about the setting to lead the reader to feel sympathy for both the man and snake. The detail that shows sympathy for the man is when he’s out for a walk and he unexpectedly comes across the snake. The man’s first instinct was to “let him go on his way” and he would go on his. This shows that the man wasn’t really aggressive and really
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The Rattler The author uses different literary devices‚ including point of view and diction to show a character’s struggle in choice between regret and heroism. His use of first person point of view is used to convey regret‚ while his use of diction is used to show heroism. The author uses point of view to show the regret he felt. “...I could see him as I might have let him go‚ sinuous and self-respecting in departure over the twilit sands...” He uses the word “I” to indicate that it is in first
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One can have conflicting encounters with Nature. While some are gay and amusing‚ others can be depressing and unsettling. "The Rattler" describes a rueful encounter between a man and a snake. The man in the passage is torn between allegiances to his duty and his feelings. The man‚ at length‚ decides to obey his sense of duty‚ and proceeds to kill the snake. After killing the snake‚ he recounts his decision and comes to regret it. In the passage‚ the use of language and details about the man‚ the
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“The Rattler” Essay The most dangerous animals can be also the calmest‚ smartest animals. In the short story “The Rattler”‚ A man encounters a seemingly harmless snake but still decides to take its life. Although the snake shows no signs of being dangerous‚ it is still killed because it is a snake. “The Rattler” invokes sympathy for the snake and empathy for the man through the descriptions and actions of the man and the snake. The personality‚ actions‚ and appearance of the snake generate sympathy
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intense burning and stinging in the wound. It can cause headaches‚ blur of vision‚ sweating‚ difficulty of breathing‚ vomiting‚ and numbness to face and limbs. If someone is handling a rattlesnake‚ they need to be very cautious. Before they pick a rattler up‚ it is best to wear it out. To wear one out‚ get it to strike as many times as possible. Once it starts showing signs of it being tired‚ such as less striking‚ tucking its head‚ and little movement‚ that is your best chance for grabbing it. Once
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range of different competitions. These competitions were made up of football‚ baseball‚ tug of war and touch football. The winners would receive a trophy and a pocket knife and the losing team would not receive any prize or trophy. Overtime the rattlers developed a Norm of toughness and aggression and became very confident in their ability and success they went as far as putting up flags with the crest on them around the baseball field and would make threats to the other group if they tampered with
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"The purpose of this paper is to describe; explain and discuss the best place to enjoy your vacation in United States of America: Six Flags over Texas". Have you ever got bore doing the same thing throughout the year? Have your body stressed beyond your understanding? and later worse to become a disease?. To overcome these situations various places have been developed for people to have fun and relieve their body from pressure from their daily activities. One of these places is: “Six Flags Fiesta
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joined with the snake prepared to strike is a notice. This tell individuals not to venture on or exploit the Americans or they will strike. The utilization of the snake or all the more particularly the rattler did not happen by chance. The truth of the matter is that the eastern diamondback rattler and the timber poisonous snake were both genuinely plenteous inside of the colonies. In a mocking article‚ Benjamin Franklin recommended that the Americas send diamondbacks to Britain as a reaction to their
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Blind obedience is when a person carries out an order even if it goes against their moral values or codes. Prejudice is an unjust attitude towards an individual solely based on their membership of a social group. Both of these issues were present in Abu Ghraib Prison (Iraq). They occurred when American soldiers commit terrible act upon Iraqi prisoners staying there. The soldiers claimed they were merely following orders‚ but scepticisms have been made about whether it was blind obedience or prejudice
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