"The Chrysanthemums" is a story by John Steinbeck. In it, he tells the story of Elisa Allen, who loves to garden. In particular, she loves chrysanthemums.
Elisa is married but seems to be lonely and bored with her life. A stranger arrives (the "tinker") who is looking for work. Although she does not have any work for him to do, she does give him some of her beloved chrysanthemum shoots in a pot. The tinker says he has a customer who wants some.
Elisa gives the tinker a pot filled with shoots and tells the tinker how to care for them. The shoots are very fragile. As Elisa continues to talk to him, she begins to feel an attraction for him. The tinker talks a little about his life and how he travels from place to place. Elisa would like to live as he does, always on the move, but the tinker says it is not a life for women. She tries to explain how strong and capable she is, but he continues to maintain his lifestyle is not for a woman. Soon he leaves.
Elisa watches him drive away. As he goes, she whispers: "That's a bright direction, there's a glowing there." Literally, Elisa means the light glinting off the tinker's wagon. Her words mean more than that, however. The tinker represents freedom, a freedom that Elisa, a woman, can never enjoy. It is noteworthy this light is moving away from her.
And so, Elisa's words indicate a desire for freedom and adventure, two things she will likely never have.
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My flatmate <u>always leaves</u> the bathroom in a mess!
I will call you when I <u>get</u> home.
The coffee <u>tastes</u> really bitter.
Kathy <u>fell off</u> the ladder when she <u>was painting</u> the wall.
While we <u>were having</u> tea, it <u>started</u> to rain.
Mark <u>is living</u> in Prague for a few months, but usually, she <u>lives</u> in London.
When we <u>were decorating</u> a Christmas Tree, Santa Claus <u>had come</u>.
<u>Did you start</u> to work at school in 2001?
I <u>drink</u> coffee every morning.
The next train <u>is leaving</u> this evening at 17:00.
Explanation:
Simple present or present indefinite tense is employed to denote universal truths, habitual/regular actions, and the present actions. It is formed using 'sub + V1 + s/es with 3rd person singular.' While present continuous tense is employed to denote the ongoing action in the present and formed by using 'sub + is/am/are + V1 + ing.' Past simple tense is used to describe the completed actions or past events that took place at a specific point of time in the past and thus, it uses 'sub + V2.' Past continuous tense is used to denote the actions that began at particular point of time in the past and were in continuity in the past. It uses 'sub + was/were + V1 + ing.' These tenses have correctly been employed to fill the above sentences.
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a foil character helps explain why characters do what they do
Explanation:
Answer:
The flag went up and down in the wind.
Explanation:
The rhyming couplet from the poem “Barbara Frietchie” is ''Ever its torn folds rose and fell
On the loyal winds that loved it well''
The action in the rhyming couplet can also be written as ''The flag went up and down in the wind''
John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem “Barbara Frietchie”.
He was also an advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States