The Speckled "Band"

The first plot device I recognized was definitely "suspense". The author made Helen seem very "helpless". He describes here trembling from being cold. She tells him that it is not from being cold but it is from fear. It adds a little bit of suspense with her adding that it was terror, which implies that it is worse then we expected. When she begins to tell the story it creates a "frame story." Also when she describes Grimseby starting to change and telling a short story of how much he has changes, points right him that he must have murdered Julia somehow.It is like we are seeing into her thoughts and her re-living he horror all over again so it translates onto us. I found that it was a "twist ending" when we find out that it was not gypsies or fear and shock that killed Helens sister, but it was a speckled african snake. When I think about the way Julia described it as a speckled "band" I see that just looking at a snake it would look like a band.

I did have some trouble with this so if anyone disagrees or wants to give some input I would be completely open to that.