identify the elements of narrative in chapter 11 of To Shake The Sleeping Self Jedidiah Jenkins. What is the conflict? Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? How do their wants differ and cause conflict? How does the conflict build? What is a major detail of setting? What mood or atmosphere does it create? Is there an unspoken message that the reader is supposed to understand in the events playing out in the pages you have chosen? What is it?

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?