Papa, Snake and I

This was the story that had alot of conflicted discussion in class. The mother was very hard on one of her sons , there was this snake problem that was causing the chickens to disappear. The mother had asked the father to handle it but he didnt, so the boy felt it was his resposibilty to try and kill the snake and earn some respect from his mother. The trouble started with the pet dog trying to protect the boy and his brother and the dog ends up killing the snake but died after the snake had bitten it. Then the ending was disappointing because the mother still didnt appreciate what the boy had tried to do for her.