Short stories and poems—such as Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, and Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde—are among literary tools utilised to reflect the reality of mankind. In the stages of life humans must pass through, there will be events that pose a threat to their living conditions, or act as a catalyst that motivates one to grow stronger. Within modern society, there are a plethora of factors influencing the process in which a person comes of age. Financial hardship is one of the most impactful factors in shaping an individual’s crucial transition from adolescence to adulthood—reasons being urgency, social mobility, and lack of necessities. Poorer individuals logically come of age faster than people of better socioeconomic status, because they …show more content…
And according to Britannica, African American Vernacular English is a diverged dialect of American English normally spoken by people with low levels of education (Mufwene). This occurrence portrays how the underavailability of education seeps into various aspects of life, even in speech. The second supporting evidence is that Miss Lottie’s house in Marigolds is described as a “ramshackle” suggesting that the living quality in this neighbourhood as a whole is not up to standard (Collier). The third supporting detail is that, in the poem “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde, the narrator not only faces loss of communication with her mother, but also relative poverty since she mentioned that “my room is too small for me,” which implies inability to purchase a large, which is logically more expensive, enough shelter (line 14). In these selected examples, it is clear that financial hardship impacts the transition from adolescence to adulthood by physically/mentally/intellectually prohibiting them from typical