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

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to snakes, throughout the text, and to what effect?

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Dmitriy789 [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-14T14:04:51+03:00

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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.