Summary Of The Snake By Eric Rugara

Eric Rugara's "The Snake" uses kinetic prepositions to highlight the aliveness of the story by enhancing the father's excited movements, reflecting the dynamic mood felt by the characters at the end of the story. Frequent use of prepositions depict the spatial movement of the father in relation to the snake, contributing to "The moment, the emotion, the action and aliveness" (Rugara) appreciated by the family and readers. The mellowness of the tea drinking of the bystanders concurs with the use of static prepositions outlining the remoteness of the portrayed innocent snake slithering “on the gray wall, above the window and next to the door”. Whereas at the climax, as the father "leapt back" (Rugara) and "brought down the pole on the snake’s