Answer:
The countryman in the Chinese tale showed an angry, hostile, and stingy attitude/emotion.
Explanation:
The countryman in the Chinese tale, 'The Wonderful Pear Tree", showed a very angry and hostile attitude towards the beggarly Priest that approached him for help. He was also very stingy because he refused to grant the poor man the request of just a pear from the many pears that he had in is barrow.
The Priest also taught him a hard lesson, when in an unexpected way, he distributed his pears to everyone in the crowd, only for the countryman to go back to his barrow and find that one of its handles was gone and along with all of his pears.
Answer:
In November of 1783 the Continental Congress was meeting in Annapolis, MD. Jefferson took time out from his duties to write to his oldest daughter - eleven-year-old Patty - who had been left in the care of Mrs. Thomas Hopkinson, the mother of a friend.
Possibly hope in a dire or seemingly hopeless situation.
1: Read the introductory info if there is one.
2: Watch out of the words that the author chose.
He withholds the fact that the falling horseman is the father of the shooter. Enjoy!