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, stabbing, and beating us to death. It seems like that might have been what happen in “My Tongue Brought Me Here”. A tongue untamed.

Some slaves just wouldn’t “shut-up”. In the days of slavery the tongue caused many deaths. Slaves were always mouthing back to the “Master”, his wife, or someone else who were in authority. The slave in “My Tongue Brought Me Here” is a prime example of an “I just can’t shut-up”. He should have known skulls can’t talk by themselves. So what was this slave thinking? Did he have anything to think with? This slave gave other slaves a bad reputation. He acted like he was crazy and didn’t know the master was serious. Maybe he had a death wish. Could life have been so bad for him that he just wanted to die? The white master clearly stated “if the skull doesn’t talk you are a dead man”. I would think at this point the slave would rethink the situation and forget showing the skull to anybody. This slave must have been beaten in the head at some point or just plain stupid. Even if the skull did talk to him what made