In the novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Grams is bitten by a water moccasin. The water moccasin, also know as Agkistrodon piscivorus, is North America's only venomous water snake (Wikipedia.com). It tends to live in particularly slow-moving and shallow lakes, streams, and marshes (livescience.com). This snake has a distinctive blocky, triangular head and a thick body (livescience.com). The water moccasins rarely bite humans, however, their bite can be fatal (Wikipedia.com). It is important to respond quickly to bite from a water moccasin. According to the Mayoclinic.org if you are bitten by a snake you should “ 911 or your local emergency number immediately” and while waiting for medical help: 1) remain calm, 2) move away from the snake, 3) remove tight clothes or jewelry, 4) keep bite below heart level, 5) clean wound and cover with dry dressing, 6) don’t use a tourniquet or ice pack, 7) do NOT cut or attempt to remove venom, 8) don’t drink caffeine or alcohol, 9) don’t catch the snake, 10) remember what the snake looked like so it could be identified. …show more content…
In the story Gramps does an excellent job of first aid for the time the story was set.
He follows most but not all of the current recommendations for dealing with a bite from a water moccasin however, some recommendations have changed since then. First, they remain calm: “Gramps scooped up Gram and carried her out of the water.“ Next, they move away from the snake as he asked Grams “'Would you mind dropping that [snake].” Luckily, she didn’t have tight clothes. Mostly because they didn’t have them but they didn’t use ice, a tourniquet, coffee or alcohol. They didn’t call 911 but they didn’t have cell phones at the time this story was set. Instead. they took her immediately to the hospital and they were able to identify the
snake. Gramps did an excellent job with first aid for the snake bite. However, the things that they did that were not recommended were: They did not keep the bite below the heart and instead she was lying down in the car. “We placed Gram's head on my lap and her feet on the boy's lap,”(pg. 63). They did not clean the wound and and instead they cut the bite and try to remove the venom. Gramps “made a slit in Gram's leg across the snake bite, blood trickled down her ankle” (pg. 63). Next, “the boy placed his mouth against Gram's bloody leg. He sucked and spit, sucked and spit.” (pg. 63). During the time the story was set people commonly believed that sucking out venom was helpful. However, medical professionals no longer recommend this because “you could nick a small vein or artery with your cutting, and send venom-laden blood directly into the circulatory system.” (Outdoorlife.com). Plus, you increasing the risk of infection. Besides, you only remove about one/one-thousandth of the venom with any suction technique (Outdoorlife.com). However, it doesn’t seem that any harm came to Gran as a result of this technique: they don’t cut her vein and she doesn’t seem to have developed an infection. All in all, Gramps did the best he could to take care of Gran and it doesn’t seem that anyone else could have done a better job at the time.
In the book Rikki crushes all but one egg of Nagaina’s to bribe Nagaina into staying away from the kid. Rikki said, “What’sthe price for a snake’s egg? For a young cobra? For a king cobra? For the last-the very last of the brood? The ants are eating all the others by the melon bed.” Also in the book the snake flees with the egg trying to outrun Rikki. In the book it states, “He had forgotten about the egg. It lay on the veranda and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, til at last, while Rikki-Tikki was drawing breath, She caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path.” Also in the movie the mongoose booked it right into the snake hole where many mongooses never come out. (movie) The movie shows “Rikki chasing Nagaia down a hole where the snake lived.” Also in the movie Rikki killed Nagaina, and whatever cobra ever dared to try to threaten him or the family. In conclusion that is how the Resolution is related to the book and the
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Mongooses can kill cobras in one single bite There once was a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-tavi. He lived in the jungles of India. One day, Rikki was washed up to a house by a big storm. The family that lived there thought that Rikki had died but decided to wrap him in a warm cloth anyway. A little while later, Rikki woke up, ate some food, and wandered off to explore the garden outside the house. There he met a tailorbird named Darzee, and a muskrat named Chuchundra. They were sad because Nag, a cobra, ate a baby bird. Just then, Nag and his wife Nagaina showed up and introduced themselves to Rikki. They knew that Rikki-Tikki-tavi would eventually save the garden and they would then be forced to leave. Both the printed copy and video show the same plot but also have some differences.
The story is written in a moralistic tone. After defeating the first snake, Karait, he could indulge and eat his kill or all the food offered that night as a reward, but he instead ate a light dinner because he knew there were more cobras to fight so he didn’t want to be slowed down. “That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail to the head, after the custom of his family, when he remembered that a big meal makes a slow mongoose” (Kippling 16). The tone of that passage suggests that this anti-gluttony attitude is one the reader should also take up when necessary. Many asp...
Night by Elie Wiesel and Life is Beautiful share common themes. Both of these stories take place during the Holocaust, which was when Hitler wanted to annihilate all of the Jews. One theme they both share is father-son “bonding”. In both stories, 2 of the main characters are the father and son who are both going through the Holocaust. Another theme is silence. There are times in both Night and Life is Beautiful that silence plays a key role. A third theme between the two is innocence. Elie was very young when he entered into the concentration camps. Joshua is even younger when he goes through the Holocaust.
The cobra, ready to strike, takes its final aim at the mongoose until it strikes. The mongoose eats the snake up as it does with most other cobras. Rikki-tikki-tavi is a story of a mongoose, whose name is Rikki-tikki-tavi, who kills a total of three snakes in order to save his family’s life. Rikki started out flowing downstream in an river in India. A human family found him and basically adopted him. Two snakes try to kill Rikki and his new family, but Rikki kills them before they can do that. Both the printed and video versions of Rikki-tikki-tavi were enjoyable to read and listen to, but there were some similarities and differences between the two.
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