The Power of Television

                                                         "Sweat"/WW2 

              The story I am doing is called “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston. In the story the protagonist, Delia lives with her husband, Sykes, the antagonist. Sykes is a very abusive and violent man and he would always find ways to harm Delia just for his amusement. Delia however, was a simple and gentle woman. She was caring and nice and she never did any wrong to other people. So throughout the whole story, Delia was continuously tormented by Sykes until Sykes got a snake. Delia was very afraid of snakes, but in the end when everything seems to go down the drain, Sykes was bitten by the snake and died.

                I think that the theme of this story is “You must taste bitter before sweet”. It is an old Chinese proverb telling that for you to gain success (taste sweet) you must first undergo hardship and hard work (taste bitter). I feel that this theme strongly agrees with the story because Delia first suffered tremendous violence from Sykes and in the end, as if a gift by god, Sykes gets killed and she moves to live in Woodbridge.



Author Unknown. File:Kapitulation-reims.gif. August 2005.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Accessed on March 11,
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                The picture is Adolf Jodl signing the agreement of unconditional surrender to the allies in World War 2. In the first half of World War 2 the Axis seemed to be winning everything. They were attacking relentlessly at the Allies and the Allies were getting pushed back more and more. During one of those darkest days, a light, a single ray of light pierced that darkness. The Allies had landed in Normandy and would soon liberate all of Europe from the Nazi rule.

The theme supports this because the allies suffered many defeats and adversities such as Dieppe and the Battle of France (the bitterness). But in the end they pulled though and won the war and were able to unshackle the bonds that the Nazis had the Europe locked in (the sweetness).

In conclusion I believe that the story and the picture are very similar even though they are of completely different things. The story and the picture both support the theme “You must taste bitterness before sweet” because they both show that the person or group suffered severe hardships before tasting “sweetness”.

English..................

This blog is for my english. We are suppose to make a blog and talk about it......thats about it. If you're looking for something interest, you're in the WRONG PLACE my friend. But anyways ENJOY!!!!!!!

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