1. By Brandon wills
2. Excited
2.1. "U Htun Win, held out a snake bag. "I think it's a Dinodon," he was saying. Joe extended his right hand into the bag. When it reappeared, a pencil-thin, gray-banded snake swung from the base of his middle finger." pg 1/4 pgh 1 "AFTER IT WAS OVER, we'd all wonder why Joe had reached into the snake bag with barely a glance inside" pg 3/4 pgh 17
2.1.1. Joe is excited because U Htun Win held out a snkae bag eand joe extended his hand into it without a glance qith out knowing that the snake in the bag was a Krait.
3. Confident
3.1. "Joe sat down to join the rest of us for breakfast at a long wooden school table, joking about his thick skin." pg 1/4 pgh 2
3.1.1. Joe is confident with his skills and many expierences with snakes and poisonus creatures in his past and he has never had death threatening effects with bites like with this snake
4. Lucky
4.1. "He was also famous for close calls. Bitten by a copperhead in college in Kansas, he'd gone back the next day to catch another, left-handed." pg 2/4 pgh 10
4.1.1. Joe is lucky because one his is famous for all the close calls he has had through snake bites and two is when he had his colleagues help him survive his last 27 painful hours of going through the snakes venom.
5. Daring
5.1. "He seemed to embody the understanding that a fully natural world includes the possibility that nature can kill us—and afterward glide freely away into the wet grass it came from. That love in any form involves an element of risk." pg 2/4 pgh 10
5.1.1. Joe is daring because of his actions with the environment from snakes to the leaches and I’m guessing many other interactions that he makes with the environment. I believe he is daring because of his carless actions and how daring he was when he just out his hand into the snake bag with the krait and got himself killed.
6. Tolerant
6.1. "On a previous trip to Burma, a spitting cobra had struck through the bag Joe put it in, stabbing his finger. He waited calmly for the venom to take effect. Luck of the draw, he would say, telling the story: Sometimes a snake bites without injecting its toxins. On a later Burma trip, a cobra squirted venom into his eyes. After a few hours the excruciating pain passed." pg 2/4 pgh 10
6.1.1. Joe is tolerant because on his adventures with his love for snakes he has been struck many times by these creatures and has gone back for more either the other day or at another time when he can as it says in the artice.