Complete the Short Story Guide in preparation for the assignment and your Discussion-Based Assessment. Write a well-reasoned essay in which you respond to one of the following quotations. In your response, take a position (whether you agree or disagree) and use evidence from the story, real life, and one other short story or novel you have read to support your perspective. There is no right or wrong response; instead, your instructor will be evaluating your depth of thought and the strength of your evidence and explanations.

We cannot consider a good income as the only reason to be happy, since happiness is something you cannot buy and money is a finite thing, which promotes fleeting happiness. However, we cannot disagree that income is one of the factors that profoundly influence people's happiness, even without being the main factor. This is because we are happy when our needs are met, although a good income cannot meet our emotional needs, it is the only factor capable of meeting our physical and economic needs. Without a good income, we will experience difficulties and will not be happy, since love, affection and companionship cannot meet the needs of food, home and many others.