I think it's best if you read it again so I can make sense.
Its c. high school students should be required to community services in order to graduate.
Elisa has a bad relationship with her husband Henry. Henry doesn't appreciate Elisa's femininity and sexuality. She grows the chrysanthemus as they were her children. However, her encounter with the tinker reawakens her sexuality and gives her hope. Her realization that her life is not going to change is real whe she sees the flowers thrown on the road.
Cloning humans:
pros- less work for an individual, maybe not completely cloning someone so like picking desirable traits in a person and changing that
cons- possible overthrowing of the "real" copy, families who have exact copies of each parent may end in incest, or even selfcest
But we already live in a world where there are real life clones. Twins, and triplets. I believe there's a Brain Games episode that discuss this topic.
