The most significant event I have experienced in the last 4 years

                Moving to Ohio was a big change for me. I was told I would be staying with my dad for the summer. I didn't even know i was going to have to live here, until my mom called me up one night and told me that I was going to have to stay. I was devastated. I couldn't believe that she was making me stay in Ohio with my dad, knowing how much I disliked him and my step mom. At first she said I would only have to stay for my junior year, but she eventually said I should just finish out school here. I really didn't want to stay here and it wasn't just because I missed my mom.

           After living with my dad for a while things went down hill for me. I was so unhappy, but when i expressed how I felt, someone, usually my step mom would say that I was pretending to feel that way for attention. She even once said that i was coughing for attention and tried to make me go to bed. She would talk about me to my siblings and say things like "Anna doesn't do the dishes right," and I only know this because my little sister would repeat these things back to me. Living with this for the last to years taught me to avoid conflict whenever possible and to not take things too personally. Because now I can see that if someone feels the need to constantly put someone else down, they obviously have some issues of their own that they need to work through. Moving to Ohio changed my how I view other people and how I deal with unkind people.

Theme in Sweat

              One of the themes in sweat by Zora Neale Hurston is what goes around comes around. Sykes, which is Delia's husband has been abusing her for 15 years. he emotionally and physically abused her. Towards the beginning of the story Delia said,"'Sykes, what you throw dat whip on me like dat? You know it would skeer me--looks just like a snake, an' you knows how skeered ah is of snakes'"(1). Sykes replied to her, '"Course I knowed it! That's how come Ah done it"(1). This is proof of his intimidation of his wife. He even went so far as to bring a rattlesnake home in a box and refuses to remove it. And one day she has enough of his mistreatment and makes him leave, but he refuses to take the snake with him. One day wile Delia is away from the house, Sykes comes back and puts the rattle snake in the laundry basket, knowing she would wash clothes later. this is done as an attempt to kill her. When she comes home she sees it and runs. Sykes goes back to the house and is bitten by the snake and dies. he calls out for Delia but she doesn't go inside the house. Sykes was abusive to Delia and tries to kill her with a rattlesnake, but he ends up dying instead.