...The Giraffe “Not only the children fell under a spell watching it, but we boys too, even the men and the women at first.” How the giraffe caught many people’s attention and also shows how his physical appearance was different from other people who lives in the town Shows the villager’s emotions; Unfamiliar, scared, nervous to see the giraffe Villagers differentiate the giraffe right away “Slowly it would lower its head and then raise it again to a dizzying height. It must have seen over the houses the clotted red of the roofs and the horizon, who knows how far.” It exaggerates the giraffe’s height, creates imagery “Dizzying height” shows how tall the giraffe is and tells us how different his physical appearance is compared to the villagers. “And yet everyone put up a fuss, even to going and calling the policeman, who came and said, “ if you don’t take it away I’ll kill it with my revolver”” Shows villager’s emotion towards the giraffe only because its physical appearance and only because it's unfamiliar to the villagers Develops the plot of the story “The giraffe, frightened, withdrew to the front of the church, placing its head right next to that o Jesus.” Shows the giraffe’s emotion towards the villagers and this supports the moral idea of the story by showing how giraffe is frightened just like the villagers. “Damn this town anyway, where giraffes can’t live, because there’s room only for the things that are already here” Impact on the main moral message that the author...
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...The word fool as defined by as “a person lacking in judgment or prudence” (webster dictionary). When considering this definition Gimple is truly a fool, he lacks what would be defined as “better judgment” and leads with belief in possibilities. Gimple was consistently falling for tricks and seeming to never learn from them. However despite the many tricks Gimple fell for, I would not count him a complete fool. Gimple might have lacked what we would call “better judgement”; but, he did not lack complete judgement. He was able to judge situations and see the dishonesty within them; he just decided to believe without evidence. It is this intentional decision made by Gimple to believe without evidence, in reaction to his peers and their cruelness,...
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