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Today's Work · Wednesday, October 7, 2026

  • Meet with THREE peers not in your group!  
  • Highlight points that you agree with a different color for each peer.
  • Add your reflection about your agreement/disagreement for each question.
  • Place a key at the bottom of your questions that designates which color represents each peer.  
  • Submit your completed document in Canvas.  
  1. Analyze the title of the story “Sweat.” How does the title comment upon the theme of the story?
  2. Why does Delia continue to stay with a husband who abuses her?
  3. How do the community members react to Sykes’s treatment of Delia?
  4. How does Delia’s discovery of Sykes’s bullwhip foreshadow what is to come later in the story?
  5. When Delia finally stands up to Sykes and tells him to leave her house, how does he react? Why doesn’t he carry through with his threats to hurt her?
  6. Why does Delia not attempt to save Sykes? Do you think she will later have regrets?

Quote of the Day · Wednesday, October 7, 2026

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?