Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Analyze the plot of "Sweat."

I just wrote and lost a detailed answer to your question.
Maybe it'll show up yet. For now, though, let me quickly
summarize.


1. We might want first to agree on a definition
of "plot." See the link before for a full discussion, which includes the following
defintion:



In
literature, a plot is all the events in a story
2particularly rendered towards the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional
effect. In other words, it's what mostly happened in the story or novel or what the
story's general theme is based on, such as the mood, characters, setting, and conflicts
occurring in a story.



2. We
can identify important plot elements in the story, including the laundry basket and the
rattlesnake.


3. We can characterize the plot in general
terms, such as a "revenge plot" or even a "cosmic revenge plot." The man seems to get
what's coming to him, and woman seems to contribute in at least a very small way to his
death. After all, she doesn't summon help right away when she sees that he's been bitten
by the snake.

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