characters and plot - by telling a story about the lives of particular people
Explanation:
The author of "11 PM at Star City" makes a persuasive point mainly through characters and plot - through telling a story about the lives of some particular people.
Star City also offered to give ten years of tax-free in return for domestic jobs for unskilled workers. The company also kept the factory opened for another few years, before they exhaust their ten tax-free years.
The job at Star City exhaust the narrator's father and the other workers because they run three different shifts of line workers. They would work during the Midnight Shift for one week and once their bodies had adjusted to sleeping in the day, they would work during the morning shift in the following week, This made them all to be confused and exhausted.
The setting of "Marigolds" is during the depression or the 30s. You know this because the story says, "The depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us" and "the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed".
