Zora Neal Hurstons' “ Sweat “

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Zora Hurston was born on January7, 1891, in Eatonville Florida, the first black town ship to be in corperated in the united states. Her mother died when she was thirteen years old.
Zora graduated from Morgan Academy high school in 1918. She also attended Howard university between 1918 and 1924, but she graduated from Bernard college in 1928. Her first novel was Jonahs Gourd Vine written in 1934
One of her popular literacy was Sweat ; a short story about two disturbed black couples living in the south. Delia and Sykes Jones fought constantly about everything. Sykes hated the fact his wife washed clothing for the white folks. He believed it was a disgrace to the black race to stoop that low. Delia on the other hand despised her husbands selfish aggressive behaviors. She is a hard working and most of her living and goes towards including their house.
To make things worst Sykes was seeing another women, which hurt Delia a lot, but strengthened her in reminding who owns everything. I believe her husband sees it too, or he would have left her for the other woman. The only time I see a pinch of happiness shared between those two, is when Sykes scares Delia with a rope which looks like a snake. She gets angry but they both laugh about for a short while, then they go back hating each other. Maybe it’s there on way of expressing love to one another.
But sometimes your own jokes can turn around and bite you in the butt. That is exactly what happened to Sykes when the snake escaped from the box and killed him. I was sad the way he died, but it is his stubbornness which caused it.
This story reminds me of my aunt and uncle, except I don’t think he cheats on her. But they verbally fight a lot and joke about it after or just the opposite way around which is quite funny, which brings me back to the book sweat. Although this short story serious in way on the other it was considerable funny....