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Claim: fought through many hardships.
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He worked very hard through his life
The theme is to enjoy the simple things in life such as the stars and each other. The poem shows that the characters should be doing something else but they prefer to stay under the stars enjoying them
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There are many painful realizations along the road to maturity.
Explanation: Cowboy trade cards was something Jerry enjoyed collecting with his friends. He had to make a decision about whether or not he should give up his money to help buy a present for his dad's birthday or spend it on the cowboy trading card he's been waiting for. Soon his father and brother lost their jobs. President trading cards replaced cowboy cards. Now Jerry feels bad about not chipping in money for the birth gift. Towards the end, he makes a decision to sell his cowboy card to Rollie and gives the money to his brother so that he can use it towards his dance. Jerry has become thoughtful and mature by doing so.
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B. Delia has no desire to engage with Bertha and does not care to hear the village gossip.
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In the story "sweat" by Michelle Villafor, The main character Delia Jones is a woman who holds her christian belief tight, she provides for herself and husband Sykes. Her husband treats her with so much hatred, he also has a mistress named Bertha, who he spends Delia's hard earned money on. Sykes does not contribute any money to the home neither does he give Delia peace of mind.
Bertha is Sykes mistress, whom He flaunts around town and in front of his wife Delia. He brought a snake to the house so as to frustrate Delia out of the house and bring in his mistress but Delia has no desire to engage with Bertha. Sykes the husband of Delia is very abusive to Delia. Delia finds solace in her Christian beliefs.
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Sonnets are fourteen lines, as is sonnet 130; this allows Shakespeare to list several qualities of his mistress, then conclude with a couplet that turns the rest of the sonnet on its head. Sonnets have ten syllables per line, as does sonnet 130; this makes the poem read cleanly, with each thought given the same amount of weight in the poem. There are no structural oddities, like shorter or longer sentences, just the steady flow of beautiful poetry. Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter; this makes the singsongy feel of the poem as it compares each attribute of the woman with a quality found in nature
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