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How do the shifts in setting from the blazing heat of day to the cold night on the lagoon provide a kind of commentary on Arsat’s tale?

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the shifts reinforce the emotional extremes in Arsat's tale.
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The correct answer is:

The shifts reinforce the emotional extremes in Arsat's tale.

In "The Lagoon" (1896), a short story by Joseph Conrad, "Tuan" (meaning Lord or Sir) is a white man traveling through a rainforest in Indonesia. He will have to stay for one night with his remote Malay friend named Arsat, who is distraught because his lover is dying.

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