What importance does the setting of “Sweat” have to its action?
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- The story takes place mostly in a house on the outskirts of a small Florida town (which critics identify with Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville). The isolation of Delia’s home is essential to the plot. Its distance from town means that she has no protection there from Sykes’s violence, just as its isolation ultimately gives Sykes no escape from his slow, painful death by snakebite. The setting is also important to the story’s motivation. Delia has bought the house with her own hard work. Sykes wants to kill her for the house so that he can bring another woman home to it. The house also becomes a symbol to the otherwise disappointed Delia of what she has managed to accomplish in her hard, painful life. (“It was lovely to her, lovely.”)
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a. 100.700 b. 10.700 c. 1.070 d. 17.000
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"I hope I did ____________on the test," said Emma
a) good b) well
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What will be an ideal response?
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