Which words from the passage help to create a dark or grim tone?
It is early morning on a Caribbean island, and African slaves—hundreds of them—are being sent out to the fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. Bent over, palms callused from the small, tough stalks, smoke scorching their eyes, they work. The overseer prowls nearby, mounted on horseback, a rawhide whip fastened to his saddle.
–Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
sent, burn, bent
palms, eyes, rawhide
morning, weeds, tough
callused, scorching, prowls
