David and Tessy continue running away from the battle. They realize that they are pretty far away from the inter-tribal war, so they decide to stop for a few minutes to rest. They sit down as well as drink some water from each of their canteens. While they are resting, David notices that something was moving among the trees. He gets up to go to check what it was. When he gets closer, he sees the eyes of an animal, a snake. He quickly alerts Tessy and they both grab some sticks to defend themselves. The snake crawls rapidly, opening its mouth along with taking out its long and pointy tongue, revealing that it is hungry. David starts running towards the snake also screaming ‘I´m not going to die here!’ Tessy gets surprised by David´s odd behavior, …show more content…
Tessy tries to help him, being less careful than David. In one of her oblivious movements, the snake bites Tessy´s leg. She screams as she feels pain in her leg. ‘No!’ Shouts David. He takes advantage of the serpent being focused on Tessy so he grabs a rock and smashes the animal´s head multiple times. He makes sure that it is completely dead and he lays next to Tessy as well as checks her bite. It looks red and a little swollen, not too bad, but only a few seconds had passed, so it is not going to look too bad until a couple hours later. ‘I feel a little dizzy’ says Tessy. ‘Don´t worry, it is going to be okay’ David tries to cheer her up. ‘I´m sorry, Tessy’ He …show more content…
It was an animal, it´s their nature’ She explains. He gives her some water but Tessy starts to feel really sick. Her head hurts; she wants to puke, not to mention that there is blood in the bite. He carries her and starts walking to look for something that could help Tessy. He has walked for a few kilometers when he sees a road not so far away. That brought him hope so he starts running towards the road. When he is pretty close to it, he notices a car approaching. He stands in the middle of the road and starts waving at the car so they could see them. The car stops and three men get out the car. ‘Please help us.’ begs David. Tessy has fallen asleep because of the fever. ‘What happened?’ asks one of the
Joel confusedly looks around and behind him he sees a scared Sarah shaking him awake, Tommy just outside of the truck, and directly in front of him, he sees a family being attacked by somebody infected, which jolts him awake and back into reality. With the car now being sideways after the crash, in order to get out, Joel uses all his strength and starts to kick the windshield in front of him until it shatters. Joel carefully crawls out then reaches in for Sarah, avoiding the shards of glass on the ground and still bordering the windshield. Just as she starts to climb out and stand up, she falls over and complains that her leg hurts. A noticeably worried Joel grabs his revolver from his jean pocket then hands it over to Tommy and demands he protect them. Joel picks Sarah up and with her in his arms, they begin running for safety. As Joel sprints through the streets with Sarah in his arms and Tommy just a few feet in front of them, chaos erupts everywhere. In any given direction, there are either citizens or infected individuals dashing through the streets, with dozens of people being attacked along the way. In addition, there are explosions and many cars accidents with one car even driving straight into a gas station, causing it to blow up. Sarah at one point looks at the gas station then alarmingly utters, “those people are on fire,” to which Joel tells her not to look, prompting her to close her eyes and
The snake’s calm demeanor when they first meet, his confidence and power, and his gruesome death help evoke sympathy in the reader. The reader’s first impression of the snake is that “he held his ground in calm watchfulness.” His stance was tense, but not threatening, as “his head was not drawn back to strike.” He does not intend to attack without being provoked; he
Looking through the thick pines, Apollo stops and points his tail. His mouth is bearing the ivory-like jaws ready to greet the threat. The stench of death is blowing through the wind. Bruce looks around. First he spots dead carcasses everywhere, then through an opening in the trees all he can see is the gigantic head of a mountain lion mouth dripping with crimson droplets from its fresh kill. The big cat backs away, snapping every branch on the way out. With the adrenaline racing through his veins, Bruce charges through the limbs raising his knife. He gets to where he last saw the beast and then he sees nothing. Not a single track. He kneels down to examine the lions fresh kill. It was a… just then the sensation of knives jabbing into Bruce’s back awakens him from his confused state. The razor sharp claws sink deep into his flesh. Bruce lets out a blood curdling yell as the pads of the enormous feet slide down his back. The only thing Apollo could do to save Bruce is snap at the legs of the mountain lion. As the weight of the giant cat pushing down on Bruce’s back, his legs collapse. The cracking of bone sends shivers up Bruce’s Spine. As he lays there in pain as motionless as can be, he can hear the fight between the cat and Apollo. Bruce cannot move to help Apollo. The snarls and growls rage on for several
Gideon finds a mongoose plant and takes the root called Thiruvananthapuram (Indian Herbal Snakebite) and chews it up and spits it into the eyes. Little Yellow Head, or Teddy as his real name, got venom spit into his eyes(Lessing) by a Russel’s viper(Indian Herbal Snakebite).”A tree snake, hanging by its tail from the roof, had spat full into his eyes”(Lessing 151). The remedy was effective in saving Teddy’s eyesight and the Farquars owed him very much. They had a scientist come out to the Farquar’s homestead and tried to persuade him to tell him which plant it was. They were trying to guilt trip him into giving up the plant but Gideon felt a loyalty to his tribe and led the others on a wild goose chase before picking a random bunch of flowers to leave him alone (Lessing). The plant root was clearly effective in returning Teddy’s eyesight to
David’s brother Will come back and has a dog with him. He tells the Loners that he thinks there is a way out, near where he found the dog. David is becoming ill from the virus.
Thomas Hardy challenges the sexual principles of the late nineteenth century in his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman, looks for work at Trantridge, where she meets the charming Alec Stoke-d'Urberville. Alec becomes attracted to Tess and later rapes her in a forest. This drives Tess to look for work elsewhere, and she meets Angel Clare at Talbothays Dairy, where they fall in love with each other and marry. However, when Tess tells Angel what happened to her at Trantridge, he leaves her and goes to Brazil. Hardy presents two men who inflict different types of pain on Tess; while Alec harms Tess physically, Angel harms Tess psychologically. Hardy establishes that people are victims of fate and, although both men have many faults, Angel is the better man.
Then David ran out with Lydia and Wendy back to the door. George had successfully drawn the attention of the lions and brought them away from the door. While David, Wendy, and Lydia were running, David didn't realize he was leading the others right into a stampede of wildebeests. As they were running, Wendy pointed out the stampede and David stopped dead in his tracks. He then realized the stampede was running right towards them. He started to run away from the animals with Wendy and Lydia behind him. However, Wendy had stopped to look at the wildebeests. Lydia then noticed that Wendy was gone and saw her standing in the way of the animals. Lydia called out to Wendy and Wendy looked at her mother. Then she was gone. She had been trampled over by the stampede and Lydia began to sob. With the help of David, Lydia got up ran ran back to the nursery
Dubliners is a collection of short stories that encircles around men, women, and children focusing on every aspects of their lives within the Irish capital of Dublin. These series of short stories were considered to be a masterpiece that was published by James Joyce in 1914, one of the most influential writters during the twentieth century. Joyce's unique style of writing is clearly displayed throughout the stories. This book consist of fifteen depressing and unhappy tales that form a sequence of desire for escape, diminishing faith, and missed opportunities among the characters. These themes are the cores of Dubliners that apply one way or another. The arrangements of each and every story appears to resemble the cycle of human life, commencing from childhood all the way to adulthood and beyond. Despite the differences, there were numerous amount of common and recurring themes found between the stories. Escape has played a crucial role in Dubliners, acting as one of the central themes presented within the stories "An Encounter", "Araby", "Eveline", and "The Dead". The protagonist of each story had made attempts to escape their tedious lives in Dublin and change was demanded, however they were all unsuccessful until arriving at the sense of realization. Having gone through traumatic experiences, only to discover that everything that they thought was possible were nothing more than a mere dream.
the women is not one of beauty and it is surprising to the reader that
is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of
The setting or settings in a novel are often an important element in the work. Many novels use contrasting places such as cities or towns, to represent opposing forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. In Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the contrasting settings of Talbothays Dairy and Flintcomb-Ash represent the opposing forces of good and evil in Tess' life.
Kino, Juana, and Coyotito go back to the beach and row out to an oyster bed, where he begins to search for the pearl. As Kino continues to search, Juana takes things into her own hands after being refused by the doctor and sucks the poison out of Coyotito and then puts seaweed on the wound, unknowingly healing him. Meanwhile Kino gathers several small oysters but suddenly comes across a particularly large oyster. He picks the oyster up and returns to the surface. When Kino opens the oyster he discovers the pearl. Word that the pearl has been discovered travel through the town quickly. People in the town became jealous of Kino and his family which eventually leads to a great deal of harm.
"...He cringed from death as one who trips on a snake in hilltop hollow recoils, suddenly trembling grips his knees and pallor, takes his cheeks and back he shrinks."
Alex keeps coming back to his snake after his nights on the town, and his first