Crossover and we were liars What did you find interesting?
How did the text hook you? If the text didn’t hook you, how could the author make the hook better?
Would you continue reading this text and recommend to a classmate?
Predict how the text will continue/end.
What is your overall opinion of the text?

he or she may have a different tone of feelings.

the opening scene of "sweat" exposes the great emotional charge of the story. it shows the violence and abuse that dyes the marriage between delia jones and skyes.

skyes decides to terrorize his wife by pulling a bull whip (which resembles a snake), knowing that she is terrified of those animals. skyes laughs cruelly at her and kicks the laundry with which delia has been working hard, telling her to get rid of it. skyes also comments on her religious manners, telling his wife how ridiculous they are. delia reacts by threatening skyes with her frying pan, generating even more conflict