Summary: “The Serpent Was There”

In the essay “The Serpent Was There,” Margot Langstaff and Joseph Badaracco, Jr., express a very traumatic event that happened to Langstaff while she was working in Trinidad and Tobago , that changed her views of life forever.
Langstaff was the nurse supervisor for an organization called World Health, Inc. The non profit company was designed to provide “modern treatment for surgical disorders” (Langstaff and Badaracco, 416). That design was soon found faul...