Lanky-Truck6409 t1_irc9ovq wrote on October 6, 2022 at 10:50 PM

Venoms are generally not toxic if swallowed, and must be injected under the skin (by snakes, spiders, etc.) into the tissues that are normally protected by skin in order to be toxic.

So she definitely did not die because of sharing food with Albert.

I think this is a fairytale she wrote so she can see herself as a main character, a common coping mechanism. She wrote her own death as being caused by the venom as she knew her dad well enough and knew the end was coming; at least this was she could give herself a bittersweet ending. She probably wrote it after she was told she couldn't go to the hospital and her animal instinct told her what would happen.

Was albert real or did he not show up the second time? Who knows. Whether an imaginary friend or a real one, it's definjtely better than eating alone and having your dad starve you to death for feeling hungry.

Revolutionary-Dig799 t1_irruie9 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 3:46 PM

She didn’t write her death as being caused by the venom, though. It says that she believes she “became one with the snake” and she was dying because the snake died, due to ingesting the venom.

Lanky-Truck6409 t1_irvrhhr wrote on October 11, 2022 at 12:33 PM

I know, but there is a lot of mystery here. Death by venom is hinted both by circumstance and by how she repeatedly says she ate venom.

She can believe one thing and another to be the truth. After all she is a child, and we do not know who wrote this. Just trying to think of possible realities behind it, and ruling other out in the process.