The Chrysanthemums
...pretty yellow flower. John Steinbeck did a good job in written this story. The main character Elisa is a hard working women who can plant really nice chrysanthemums in her garden and can get them to grow up looking really good.
One day Elisa was working in her garden planting her pretty chrysanthemums, and her husband Henry is out in the fields working. A old man that is in a wagon comes along and tries to get Elisa to buy something, or to get her to let him replace something of hers to make some money. Elisa had nothing for the man to do so he pretended to be interested in her pretty yellow chrysanthemums.
She told him how they are chrysanthemums, he said that their was a women up the road who wanted some of those flowers. Elisa without giving it a second thought ran to the house and gave this man some of the flowers. She was just trying to be nice and give him something to do for some money. After that she felt very sorry for him and gave him a pot to fix. After he fixed the pot he went on his way.
Later that night Elisa and her husband went into town for dinner,and along the side of the road Elisa saw the flowers that she had given to the man. She never saw that man again and thought that it was kind of strange ow he just showed up out of nowhere and then just disappeared again never to be seen.
The theme of this story I think would be on how you can't trust just anyone. Elisa thought that she could trust this man and help him out, but she thought wrong. Later that night when her husband and her was going into town she saw the flowers on the ground along the road. This made Elisa feel really bad and old herself. In the long run you should never trust someone that you don't know. Make sure that you always know the person that you are talking to so you don't get into trouble.
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