Rattlesnake

Nonetheless, ownership of property does not only apply to things, but also to people such as Maria. She is an asset to the studio that employs her as an actress until she is not. Maria is also a property of Carter as her husband, at least that comes from an actor in the elevator she meets. (Didion, 23). Helen May reaffirms this sentiment of property, like any other women in entertainment business, a statement mentions “That women are nothing more but a prop” (May, 9) taken from the word “use” in…

Today’s society of everyone being free and racist looked down upon ,compared to society in the 1830’s with slaves and racism. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in Southern United States in the 1830’s. A young boy named Huckleberry Finn and a slave named Jim go off on an adventure that threw out it Jim is depicted as a man who knows nothing and is a stereotypical slave. From the beginning of the story it is shown how Jim and other slave of that time are portrayed as a…

their journey progresses, Huck starts to form compassion. In chapter 10, Huck shows an extreme amount of immaturity when he plays a joke on Jim by placing a dead rattlesnake by Jim’s bed. The snake’s mate appears and bites Jim. Instead of taking responsibility and confessing to his actions, Huck blames the superstition that touching rattlesnake skin will bring about bad luck. Additionally in chapter 15, Huck plays a sick joke on Jim, tricking Jim into believing that he was dreaming about being…

John Ortberg, an American author, once said, “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” In the novel True Grit by Charles Portis, the main character Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl, goes on quest to avenge the murder of her father. Along the way, Mattie teams up with the meanest Marshal, Rooster Cogburn and Texas Ranger Laboeuf. Together they hunt down her father’s murderer, Tom Chaney. A quest like this requires a lot of grit, which is fearlessness, determination…

When Antonia and her family move to the countryside they only speak bohemian. Jim one day goes over to their house and meets the family respectfully. At the end of their meeting the father Mr. Shimerda, asks Jim's grandmother to, “te-e-each te-e-each My Antonia.”. The Grandmother then makes Jim teach Antonia throughout the summer and winter times. Their relationship starts to strengthen over this time and eventually Antonia is also teaching Jim. She teaches him things about the world, more than…

not known why these differences exist in most species and how it may be controlled. Several case studies were performed on Sceloporus lizards, including those of male-larger species and female-larger species, as well as the Western diamond-backed rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, which is a male-larger species. The main question revolves around whether sexual size dimorphism, SSD, is predominantly influenced by genetic or environmental causes. Possible determinants for SSD in these squamate reptiles…

Willa Cather moved to Nebraska in 1883, when she was only 9 years old. A year and a half later she moved to the small prairie city of Red Cloud. While there she had an attic room that she loved to read in. At sixteen she went to college. After attending the University of Nebraska she moved to Pittsburg. She became a big woman in American journalism, but quit when she started writing her American masterpieces. She wrote three masterpieces in five years, one being My Antonia. She was received the…

Writer A.S. Patrick, in his narrative essay “The Rattler”, portrays his encounter with and killing of a rattlesnake. Patrick’s purpose is to show that the killing of the rattler was necessary but not his first choice. He employs aggressive diction to evoke ambivalent feelings in the audience as he characterizes the snake, marks dramatic shifts in scenes and justifies his actions. The diction the author uses, especially the strong adjectives and use of similes create suspense and sympathy for…

Survival, the only reason we are here on this treacherous planet we inhabit. Survival can be the simplest task, or the most arduous struggle. Everyone has their own experience that entails them against the world, in a battle for their lives. There is no other man that knows this more than Hugh Glass. Hugh Glass was a nineteenth century frontiers men; who while searching for food was attacked by a mother grizzly bear protecting her cubs. Desperately trying to reach for his firearm, however he…

run away and had outlandish superstitions. Jim had told Huck before that he thought snakeskins were very bad luck, and one day Huck found a rattlesnake in the cave, killed it, and “curled him up on the foot of Jim’s blanket… thinking there’d be some fun when Jim found him there,” (p.52). Later, when Jim curled up in his blanket, the mate of the dead rattlesnake- who had found and laid with his dead partner- bit Jim in the heel. This was only the beginning of their bad luck, according to Jim,…