My Tongue Brought Me Here
“The Tongue Brought Me Here”
I believe the author of this piece of literature strategy was to set the tone early in the story to keep us interested. Everyone knows that a skull can’t talk unless there is a body connected to it (a live body). Or can it? His ultimate desire is to bring total attention to the fact that the skull is in this spot for a reason. He quickly gives us the end of the story. The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:8
If only we could learn to just keep our mouths close. This is a statement made by many a slave, when given the chance to think about what they had done to get in trouble. So many slaves were not given the chance to think about what they had done. They were just killed in an instance. Slaves were always saying something or doing something they shouldn’t. Things like “I ain’t, no, I would die first,” would make the “master” mad enough to kill. And kill they did. The master was always shooting, hanging,......
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