Karma And Destiny

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This story theme is like the well-known cliché, “What goes around, come back around”. In other words, Destiny vs. Karma and Confidence-building vs. Existence are the central theme of this story, in my opinion. Destiny vs. Karma because throughout the story Sykes would do cruel things to his wife Delia, he would talk to her anyway and treat her bad. He knew his wife feared snakes, but instead still brought a snake into their home with the intent to either kill or scare Delia out the house. But in the end was his karma, everything that he did to try and destroy Delia, that snake end up biting and killing him. It seemed like Delia Jones had put her with her husband for a long time and through everything that he did to her she finally gained the

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