How Does Zora Neale Characterize Delia Jones

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1.Delia Jones change throughout the story because first she was stilled with Sykes then now she isn't because skies have a mistress.
2.She when and help skies because she is good and she fallout god lot.
3.No because he is the one that bring the snake.
4.Because he is getting revenge for what white people did.
5.Delia is a good, hard working, religious woman who mistakenly married Sykes Jones, an abusive man fifteen years ago.
6.Zora Neale Hurston African-American writer during the Harlem Renaissance, wrote about an all-black town of Detonation, Florida.
7.b
8.That sweat is about idea live and that she works.
9.That skies hasn't let Delia alone and all problems are because of him and the

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