Which sentence from My Antonia shows a contrast? “They had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.” “Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold . . .” “But every one of them did what she had set out to do, and sent home those hard-earned dollars.” “Their children are better off than the children of the town women they used to serve.”

may i ask what topic?

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the sky

and the mother was earth

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