Absalom and Achitophel advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel. Achitophel, realising that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself. Absalom is killed (against David's explicit commands) after getting caught by his hair in the thick branches of a great oak tree: "His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on" (NRSV 2 Sam. 18:9). The death of his son, Absalom, causes David enormous personal grief. A second allegory in the poem, beginning on line 425, is the
His Name Was King smuggling activities, which in fact is Foster. Collins also assists King in the final reckoning with the sheriff. In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund writes that "His Name Was King" is an example of vengeance stories with an "external second motive", where there besides the avenger is a second protagonist with a different motive. This is a variant of the partnership plot that was used in many Spaghetti Westerns following the success of "For a Few Dollars More" where one of the bounty killer partners turns out to have a secret vengeance motive. In "His