Analyze the Narrator's Emotions.

Identify details about characters.

you can tell that zara is a person who does not fail her class and she is a good student and she always succeeds in her doings. Zara is a persevering student who is shy.

Zavier is quite some troublesome, he's a boy who you can tell who likes to mess around a lot. Likewise, he isn't a really good student..

Mario is quite the gentleman here, he's just a normal student. He is not as confident like Zara.

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

the opening scene of "sweat" exposes the great emotional charge of the story. it shows the violence and abuse that dyes the marriage between delia jones and skyes.

skyes decides to terrorize his wife by pulling a bull whip (which resembles a snake), knowing that she is terrified of those animals. skyes laughs cruelly at her and kicks the laundry with which delia has been working hard, telling her to get rid of it. skyes also comments on her religious manners, telling his wife how ridiculous they are. delia reacts by threatening skyes with her frying pan, generating even more conflict