Experiencing: Imagine yourself as Elisa, from "The Chrysanthemums," and write an essay describing what your life is like 10 years after this story takes place.
Interpreting: At the end of "The Chrysanthemums, "Elisa whispers, "That's a bright direction, There's a glowing there." Write an essay explaining what you think
Elisa means by those words. Support your explanation using references from the story.
Evaluating: Elisa's character, in "The Chrysanthemums," expresses a universal longing to reach beyond our circumstances to be more and do more. Find a
character in another story from this unit that shares Elisa's longing. For each character, explain how the author conveys this universal longing and makes the
reader empathize with the character. How are the two characters similar and different? With which character do you feel the strongest empathy, and why?
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