4. Revise and edit the paragraph. Ensure that it uses correct parallel structure. In conclusion, Steinbeck uses the different settings in "The Chrysanthemums to help us
understand the main character, Elisa, more fully. We learn about Elisa by observing her
connection to the chrysanthemum garden, her interactions with the stranger, and her complex
feelings are revealed while she is traveling in a car. We might think that setting is just the
backdrop of a story and not important, but when we pay attention to the clues an author gives
us about a character's motives, feelings, and behaving in different ways under different
circumstances, we see just how important the setting is.

i don't know exactly what it's asking, but either one of these pairs would

her; him

edith; sam

hope this ya

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.