Question

“He came here alone, and some poisonous snake has killed him...” (Paragraph 54) How does the author utilize snakes, or allusions to snakes, throughout the text, and to what effect?

Answer 1

Answer:

This question is regarding the interesting short stories written by H.G Wells. The name of this short story is "The treasure in the forest".

The author utilizes snakes as a means to make his two main characters less suspicion.

He wants to make them feel at ease about killing a Chinese man and stealing his treasure map.

Both of them are professional treasure hunters.

These lines exclaim that a snake has killed the man. Even though they killed him and there was no real snake in the story.