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What Is The Story Of A Short Story

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This story is significant because it shows how the african tribes choose their own over all the money and or power they could have, but would prefer to protect their own. This is a story about a boy who gets hit by a very venomous snake and this snake shoots the venom into the eyes of the little white boy. This snake will blind you and there was no cure for it. But this little black boy who had grown up with the white boy. There are many messages in this short story but the three main ones are money can’t buy everything, medicine can bring races together, and the lack of medicine at the time. The first message in this story is that money cannot buy everything. In the story a little white boy was going to lose is vision for ever and his …show more content…

The second message in this story is that medicine can bring people together like in our story. There was a slave who know how to heal the little white boy and actually cured him from going blind for the rest of his life. Which was very generous of him for healing the boys vision. One of the reasons that he had helped is because the two boys had grown up together so it would of have been like losing a friend if he didn't help. Money could have bought this boys freedom, but yet he kept it to himself and to his trib. The Author quotes, “Now, there’s a doctor for you” and what this means is that this little black boy could be going places if he wanted to because of the knowledge that he already has. He could have all the money in the world if he wanted too, but yet he chooses to keep what he knows a secret. WHich is very noble of him, but yet can be viewed as selfish at the same time because he has the choice to save millions of peoples vision and chooses not too. Which can be a good thing, but yet selfish? The third message in this story is that the lack if medicine was critical at the time. If a way, yeah the boy was being selfish not sharing how he didn’t share how the plant. But at the end of the story he says he bent over and gave them the roots but no one will ever know if it was the right ones or not, the author never says

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