Close Reading of "Allal"

In the story, Allal is a boy who was left behind by his mother as a baby. He grows up being an outcast. Everyone considers him a sin since his mother left him. As Allal himself says in paragraph 5 and page 227, they want to make him into a shadow so they don't have to recognize him as a person. I think him saying this has an important significance because on that same page in paragraph 7, Allal describes the snakes coming out of the bags as two dark forms. He's already kind of comparing himself to the snakes-he's a shadow and they're a dark form. This also illustrates the way the people view the snakes and him, as both being outcasts and not wanted into the town. Allal compares himself to the snakes without even knowing it, before he even has the idea of taking the one snake for his own. Having that subconscious connection right in the beginning of the story makes it easier to believe what happens at the end when he actually turns into the snake.