“The Flower” is a short story that shifts between all three points of views. The story is about an eleven-year-old girl that is sold by her mother to Mackinnon. Mackinnon is a disgusting man, who has a seventeen-year-old boy working with him called Wolfred. Wolfred and the young girl start to bond and soon become friends. They poison Mackinnon and they run away together. They face struggles, but at the end they make it. At one point the story includes all the characters point of view. Erdrich shifts point of view by signaling dialogue. For example, he writes “All I did was ask her name, he said, throwing up his hands”. He uses first person by using I and then smoothly transitions back to third. Most of the story is told in the third …show more content…
We got to know more of what was going through his head. We knew he was a boy with a kind heart that wanted to protect the girl, whose name is Flower. Wolfred is the main character of this short story and Flower is the secondary. We are told about Wolfred’s background story. We are introduced to is unmaliciously heart when he puts mud back on Flower’s face. Later, because of his observations we connect the dots that Mackinnon was molesting Flower. We are introduced to his inner thoughts as he is thinking of a way to hurt Mackinnon. When they run away, he falls sick and we see what Flower can do through him. In my opinion, we find out who Flower is because she meets Wolfred. Flower is an eleven-year-old girl, who is an independent survival. When we see things in her point of view, we see how strong she can be. She is sold by her mother and towards the end we are told she still misses her regardless of it. She is the one that knows how to survive in the wood, by finding food and building shelter. She nurses Wolfred back to health. She then takes on the journey to go to a boarding school by herself to gain an education. We are told how she slowly begins to adjust to her new life away from what she had lived
feels free and discovers many new things in life that she has not noticed before.
Living in Maryland, the narrator and her little brother Joey lived a very simple life. There mother had job that required many hours, and her father was unemployed and still in the process of trying to find a job. They lived in a very run down house in a very small poor community. One summer day, the narrator , Joey, and a group of kids from the community were bored and wanted to do something different. So,the narrator and the kids went down to one of the elders home, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie was the old woman that everyone made stories about and for the kids they knew her as the witch. In the summer time Miss Lottie would always be in her front yard planting marigolds, which were an easy target to destroy. The kids all took part in throwing rock at Miss Lottie's marigolds, and the narrator was the coordinator. After they sprinted back to the oak tree, the narrator started to feel guilt for what she
meantime she goes through a series of maturing experiences. She learns how to see her
her own and decides to escape with Jody. A feeling of sudden newness and change came over
Eugenia Collier’s “Marigolds” is a memoir of a colored girl living in the Great Depression. The story does not focus on the troubles society presents to the narrator (Elizabeth), but rather is focused on the conflict within her. Collier uses marigolds to show that the changes from childhood to adulthood cause fear in Elizabeth, which is the enemy of compassion and hope.
Innocence is something always expected to be lost sooner or later in life, an inevitable event that comes of growing up and realizing the world for what it truly is. Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” portrays an event in which a ten year old girl’s loss of innocence after unveiling a relatively shocking towards the end of the story. Set in post-Civil War America, the literary piece holds very particular fragments of imagery and symbolism that describe the ultimate maturing of Myop, the young female protagonist of the story. In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, the literary elements of imagery, symbolism, and setting “The Flowers” help to set up a reasonably surprising unveiling of the gruesome ending, as well as to convey the theme of how innocence disappears as a result of facing the harsh reality of this world.
She continues in this sequel to talk about the abuse she faced and the dysfunction that surrounded her life as a child and as a teen, and the ‘empty space’ in which she lived in as a result. She talks about the multiple personalities she was exhibiting, the rebellious “Willie” and the kind “Carol”; as well as hearing noises and her sensory problems. In this book, the author puts more emphasis on the “consciousness” and “awareness” and how important that was for her therapeutic process. She could not just be on “auto-pilot” and act normal; the road to recovery was filled with self-awareness and the need to process all the pieces of the puzzle—often with the guidance and assistance of her therapist. She had a need to analyze the abstract concept of emotions as well as feelings and thoughts. Connecting with others who go through what she did was also integral to her
She soon finds herself, saying she will “not be forced to do things,” and wanting to “be alone,” (Chapter 38, paragraph
She moves out of Mr. Pontellier’s mansion; she starts making art. The ironic part is that she herself becomes impassioned in her life by physically detaching from her life. She has thrown all her responsibilities out
She is sent by her mother to give food to her sick grandmother. The evil character, Wolf, is a cunning creature who can speak and manipulate, and who is in need of food. He says to Red, “I'll go and see [Grandmother] too. I'll go this way, and you go that, and we shall see who will be there first. ”(1)
When Myop’s summer ends, her innocence also ends in Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers.” In the story, Myop is a carefree ten-year-old girl walking through the woods near her family’s cabin. She goes exploring until she stumbles upon a dead body. That moment is a loss of innocence for Myop. All throughout the story, Walker foreshadows Myop’s innocence leaving her.
As the novel proceeds, certain characters are connected with the three main characters
While in the forest, Pearl asks her mother to recite a story she once heard about the “Black Man”. The town is terrified of the forest, and associates it with evil, while the narrator is not. He compares the forest with beauty and as the good in a disastrous
She, too, takes the control of her life away from society and puts it back
In short, the text of the story presented with feminist approach, a corrupt judicial system of Victorian England, the caucus race, Long before the introduction of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the native Englander was born as the eldest boy in