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The use of flashbacks connect to how Rolf views Azucena. He connects her to his past memories, and portrays their similarities. It shows that Rolf will never leave the girl until she gets help.

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The flashback helps connect Rolf and Azucena. After he shares his past with her they connect by being both stuck in life even if it's in a different way.

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The point of view being placed in the reporters wife allows readers to understand what he is typically like and helps to view the shift in his approach to the situation.

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The outside perspective from Rolf's wife gives the reader multiples views of the story. As she tells the story to the reader, that connection between the reader and character helps with the realism.

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The build up to the climax helps give more of an emotional response.

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The use of flashbacks helps the reader to establish a connection between Rolf and Azucena and makes them more romantically connected. Rolf sees himself as Azucena and then he wants to rescue her, but eventually must give up.
A shift in mood occured when Rolf eventually gave up on rescuing Azucena, when his mood went from excited to dreadful ,when he knew that the girl wouldn't be rescued.

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The story is told through the eyes of the wife of the reporter who is trying to save the stranded girl. She is watching him on TV and is only able to see his facial expressions and body movements to gauge what he is feeling. And yet, she is able to understand him perfectly, as the emotion he feels in trying to help this dying child has its own magnitude, and this sort of outsider perspective we get as the reader helps encapsulate how much compassion Rolf, the reporter/husband, had during these moments, even during the time we had to accept that he couldn't do anything and was resigned to watching the girl die.

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The use of Flashback by Rolf when he is trying to help Azucena directly translates the the theme of this story that when you take the time to learn about others you will find that you are not very different and can make connections with others even though your circumstances are different.

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The lack of a satisfying climax and resolution affects the stories mood and leaves the reader uneasy. When Rolf removes the tire from around the girl, the reader is instantly aware of what is going to happen.

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With this story being told in 1st person it influence the readers emotional response to the story by giving us a perspective of watching the news just as Rolf's wife did.

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The rising action, followed by the climax, creates a quick shift in mood, despite the climax being somewhat predictable. The climax was more tame than most, but was still saddening and impactful.

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This story builds upon the climax for majority of the story; the element of rising action takes up most of the story before leading to the climax/falling action of saving the girl. This affects the reading of the story because through the rising action, the author gets very deep in each element so it gets the reader to understand the sadness/seriousness of the situation and how all of that "build-up" leads to the resolution.

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The elements of the story tells the reader of the background of the situation. Things such as how, where, and why the girl end up where she did. It affects the reading of the story as it captures the readers emotional attachment to the story more and more.

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The structure of the story is very straight forward and makes it easy to understand what is going on. The resolution at the end gives us closure.

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Because the story is in first person, we get to see the development of emotion between the reporter and the girl. From the exposition to the resolution, through the eyes of the wife, we get to see how emotionally attached they become, which makes it feel as though we are watching the events unfold through ourselves.