Concetti Chiave
- A girl visits the Natural Science Museum of Philadelphia and observes a class interacting with snakes.
- The museum assistant encourages children to touch the snakes to overcome their fear.
- The teacher, inexperienced with snakes, bravely allows a snake around her neck despite her fear.
- Despite initial bravery, the teacher panics and runs away when the snake moves, amusing the children.
- The story highlights the idea that people may not always be as courageous as they appear.
Visit to the museum
A girl goes at the Natural Science museum of Philadelphia. She sees a teacher Miss Aitcheson whit hers elementary class that is seeing snakes. The assistant teaches the children to learn the feel of them, to lose their fear. The teacher, a city woman who never handled a snake in her life was pale. An assistant puts a green snake around the teacher’s neck, she feels horror but resists. The assistant asks if some child wants to touch the snake around the teacher and three child touch the snake. The schoolchildren think that she isn’t brave, but when the snake begins to move, she runs terrorized. The child laugh and the girl comes back home.
Moral: Not always the people are as they feel.
Domande da interrogazione
- What was the purpose of the assistant's demonstration with the snakes at the museum?
- How did Miss Aitcheson react to having a snake placed around her neck?
- What lesson can be drawn from Miss Aitcheson's experience with the snake?
The assistant aimed to teach the children to learn the feel of snakes and help them lose their fear, as demonstrated by allowing them to touch the snake.
Miss Aitcheson, who had never handled a snake before, felt horror but initially resisted showing her fear. However, when the snake began to move, she ran away terrorized.
The moral of the story suggests that people may not always be as brave as they appear, highlighting that appearances can be deceiving.
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