"Sweating in the heat, we had lost the whole day, dreading to be buried alive in the drifting sand." & <span>"Sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water—water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water-skin."</span>
Reversal of fortune from good to bad. In a tragedy, there are no winners.
D. to speak to his aunt as if they are friends or family.