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English connections help I already did the test and got nearly all the answers correct exept the essay question. I am not going to redo my test but would someone help me with the essay question to help me with future problems.
The essay question is........ imagine yourself as elisa from "The Chrysanthemums," and write an essay describing what your life is like 10 years after this story takes place.

Answer 1

@Atsie

Answer 2

@Atsie have you read this story. i have read it twice but i hardly remember anything about it. i reread it right after taking the test but i still couldn't form an answer for this.

Answer 3

Alright, give me a second. I have to look up a summary of the story because honestly I have never read it before. I gotta get a feel for who Elisa is, and maybe it would help me help you a bit. @Dragon123mama

Answer 4

alright. i think i will also look up a summary of it too. and we can work it out together.

Answer 5

Sounds perfect!
Here, this is what I'm reading. Maybe two brains trying to figure it out will make a conclusion hehe :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysanthemums

Answer 6

i am reading it on spark notes.
http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-chrysanthemums/summary.html

Answer 7

alright. i have a rough understanding of the story. but i am not sure what sort of things could possible happen in 10 years after the story took place.

Answer 8

Wow, this is a hard question.
Out of curiosity, do you still have a copy of what you wrote to this question previously before your teacher told you to redo it? It'd help give me an idea as to what specifically we could write out here.

Answer 9

i have word open so i can type the essay there and save it so i can refer to it with future questions similar to this. my mama said always save all work even after the year is over.

Answer 10

My teacher says that more than my mama :D

Answer 11

see that is the thing. i litterally couldn't come up with an answer. i actually left it blank because i couldn't figure anything out.

lol

Answer 12

okay. lets start with what are all the possibilities that can happen 10 years later. and we can pick 3 out of all of them that are the most likely to happen then form an answer around thoes.. maybe....

Answer 13

but what would thoes pissibilites be..... umm... one may be that she goes against the normal things a women is seen to do and does things only men can do......... or maybe that she just lives like she always has and forgets her wants of doing what a man does.

Answer 14

Hmm, I can understand that. I'd be inclined to leave it blank as well.
It appears the basic point of the story is how this woman's husband admires her, but he doesn't realize that she was stronger for fighting the attractiveness of another man than she was for her gardening.
The ending summary of the story doesn't give any clues. Like all it gives is that she was crying because she didn't want her husband to see. Does this mean that she'd break up with him and go chase the other man..........ugh, i'm a lil lost.
You do have a point though, I mean she seems to take interest in these fights which is approximation is abnormal for a woman in general. I dunno what it could be.

Answer 15

hmm... well from the summery i read it didn't mention her having feelings for the tinker. but that the tinker didn't care for the flower and he discarded it but kept the pot. ..... maybe another possibility is that she turnes her gardening skill into a buisness which also goes against norms for women back then. maybe she starts the buisness and it expands to be a huge company. usually only men own huge companies....... which of these three do you think is most logicall.. and we can start forming a response around it..

Answer 16

@Atsie u still there...?

Answer 17

which of thoes three things would make the most sence and then we can formulate a few paragraphs of a possible answer for it.....?

Answer 18

I'm so sorry. My computer completely froze and then my server went out, but I finally got it back and I also managed to copy what I was in the middle of typing :D
So..
My summary (I read both summaries actually) stated that she was attracted to this man because of his love for her flowers. And she also envied him because he lived on the road all the time.
Well, the business starting option is actually way out in left field as far as I'm concerned. Its far fetched and in a way unrelated to the story if you thought about it. I mean the setting of it is like in this old fashioned time frame where mostly grass and prairies with houses around are in existence. Seems almost weird that THIS woman would be starting a business like that. And also because woman in those times do not start stuff like that.
So the two other options are left.
She lives like a man
Or she chases the other man who seemingly admired her flowers.
@Dragon123mama

Answer 19

At the end tho is says that the man throws the dirt and the flower on the road but keeps the pot. maybe she just brakes the norms and starts doing more things that men do.

Answer 20

but then again. 10 years after this story i don't think she would have just decided to go chase that man after so long.

Answer 21

Yes maybe. And that wouldn't make sense. Thats to long of a time to wait to chase someone.

Answer 22

exactly... so then we can formulate an answer bassed off of her breaking the norms and doing more stuff then usually only men do.

Answer 23

what would be a good few sentence intro to that idea do u think..?

Answer 24

@Atsie im guessing your computer or whatever went out again.

Answer 25

@Atsie ... i had my mom help.. we came up with something but can i have your opinion on it maybe i can change or add more to it...?

Answer 26

I'm SO SO SO sorry again about that!
I wanna scream! Computer would NOT work for the past half hour.
But seeing how I didn't get to finish helping, the least I could do is give my opinion. So go ahead and show what you've got :)

Answer 27

My husband has been fully supportive of my want to do the same things as a man does. He now regularly takes me to watch the fights and teaches me about sports and how to play them. He occasionally lets me take the dominant role in situations. He makes it seem to others that I am the one who runs the household instead of him. I am the one who makes hald of the important decisions that mostly only men make. I am afraid that I know more about fighting than my own husband does. Most people are shocked when they find out I do so many things that only men are supposed to do, but I believe I have proven that women can do the same things as men, sometimes we can even do things better than they do.

Answer 28

I swear I'm not deserting you. OS has completely died on me.
I'm typing out my response now.

Answer 29

alright.

Answer 30

I'm adding a little bit more as far as introducing the essay to make it sound better and i'm also going to re-edit what you have. Just so it isn't in so many fragments. :)
I'm doing it in word, cuz I do NOT want to lost all my work again.

Answer 31

okay.

Answer 32

Alright, Maybe start off like this...

"It has been a full ten year's of my life. These ten years have taken away part of my existence while adding new spirit and strength in which I breath the air and gather wheat like a gentleman of the fields. My husband has no objection to my decisive decision in which I choose to be a woman who does the things of a man.
He regularly takes me to watch the fights and happily teaches me about sports and even also how to play them.
Along with such thrilling privileges, I also have shown my abilities to be the dominant role in situations as well being the lead in running a household that even my own husband cannot compete with.
I have been driven to the activities, the gossip, and the thrill of the fights that take place in a modern town who see me as just another woman.
To clarify, I am not just another woman. I am of a feminine disposition with the core strength of a man in the depths of my blood.
I might even boast so far to say, that I am a better man than most men.”

Let me know what you think :)

Answer 33

that is pretty good. much better than my version. thank you :3

Answer 34

No problem! ^_^