Directions: Read the summary below. Then, identify the correct type of SETTING. This book is a story about a 9 year-old boy growing up in World War 2, in Germany. His father, a high-ranking Nazi offider, gets a new job in charge of prisoners at a concentration camp. Over time, the boy becomes friends with another boy his age, who is a prisoner in the camp and wears striped "pajamas." Eventually, the boy decides to join his new friend, dressing up as a prisoner too. The boys end up being forced to follow a crowd of other prisoners, unaware of what's about to happen to them...

Is this setting BACKGROUND or INTEGRAL?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.