What’s going on in the text?
In the context of the story 'The Devil', people put the life of a dying person in someone else's hand.
Explanation:
'The Devil' is a short story about a farmer, Honore and his dying mother. In the story it so happens that the young farmer couldn't take care of his dying mother since he has to look after his wheat as well. So he hires Mother Rapet to take care of her mother.
She works on daily wages but the farmer insist on a set rate. When mother Rapet realized that his mother is taking too long to die, she took the matter in her own hand and does acts which leads to death of the farmer's mother.
From this story, readers get to know that these days how even death is negotiated. People according to their well being decides when someone's time has come.
1 Repent
2 Excavation/Crude
3Conclusively
4Worship
5gather
6 contemporary
7Remains/rodent
8 lurking
9decimated
10grim
11in the air
12carving
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