Migrant Mothers By Eugenia Collier Summary

The key messages of an author, a poet, an artist, a photographer, or a politician can transport to an audience is the need for human compassion or empathy to inspire action or to make a difference that brings the hope of understanding and a higher expectation for humanity. Word choice and sensory details guide the reader’s to the deepest emotion, but an astonishing picture, documentaries, and an artwork of an artist can also change people’s opinion. Through a text or a broadcast can raise public awareness to people who really don’t understand the meaning behind it and photography can too. The sample of a fiction story, “Marigolds” By Eugenia Collier, and the excerpt from the informational portrait, “Migrant Mother” taken by Dorothea Lange, both notify the theme of poverty. Illustrate the story of a young girl who lived in a countryside Maryland during the Great Depression, that introduces the theme of poverty and empathy, and the photographs artist of Dorothea Lange and artist like her provide the main insights into the terrible living conditions of the migrant workers.

The story Marigolds, by Eugenia Collier, is about a 14-year-old girl name Lizabeth trying to find out who she is while growing up in Maryland during the Great Depression.

Eugenia includes the word ‘Innocence' for Lizabeth, it's stated on,”Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface.” Lizabeth learns that when she destroys Miss Lottie’s marigold she is no longer innocent, she was growing up. In the act of destroying the marigolds, she learns about being mature and accepting the responsibilities of her action in the future and she had become a human, in mind and spirit. Lizabeth feels empathy towards Miss Lottie because the sadness that she felt toward the old woman and realized what she did was wrong. You really can't express the same thing in a

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In article marigolds, Lizabeth remembers of how the beautiful marigolds didn't fit the ugliness around it. Lizabeth realizes that marigolds are too perfect and that “They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they didn't make sense.” Lizabeth emphasizes that the marigolds are too beautiful to be in a place full of dirtiness and ragged things. Seeing everything around her in this ugly and poor side of town make her the feeling of empathy and a wild animal trapped in a cage. Her incapability to comprehend the abstract of the marigolds pushes her in an outraged to get rid of the confusion.

The Picture analysis that Dorothea Lange took the pictures of the migrant mother. The photo shows a family that is poor, but the photograph shows that the mother is strong and trying to take care of her children. The family of the migrant mother is very poor, you can tell this by the clothes that they're wearing and the mother's clothes are filthy dirty and torn. The time that takes place of the photo was when the migrant workers are suffering from the Great Depression. The mother is trying to take care her family as much as possible. Dorothea feels the empathy of the mother because of how much hard work she did for her children so they helped them and the other migrants that are suffering by taking the photo.