Question

Elisas character in 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 Elisas longing. For each character, explain how the author conveys thus 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?

I just need a specific character to put me on track.

Answer 1

One that I would do is the main character from "In Another Country"

Step-by-step explanation:

Since he is shut down by his friends for being American with medals because he's American AND he had a busted knee cap and yet he doesn't let anyone bring him down we can do this character for this segment of the essay.

Answer 2

The character chosen is called "The Tinker"

Step-by-step explanation:

The Tinker is a hardworking, intelligent man who wants more from his life. He is a great salesman, but he is having trouble finding a job, but he does not give up, facing adversity head on and maintaining the strong desire to travel, visit new places and change his current reality. With this character the author wants to create a sense of compliance with conformity and rejection of what life offers us and we know that it is not what we want. With this the author creates empathy between the reader and the tinker because the reader finds himself having the same desires as him and understanding the difficulty that life presents.

The tinker and Elisa are similar because of their non-conformity with their lives, but they differ because Elisa feels unmotivated with life, while the tinker feels motivated and challenged by life.

Between these two characters, Elisa manages to move more of my empathy, since I recognize the sadness she goes through and I understand how it can demotivate us to fight for our ambitions that seem far and unreal, impossible to be achieved.