Analysis of The Flowers by Alice Walker

The difference between the story's start and end is striking. We start with a light‐hearted portrayal of the life of Myop, a youthful girl‐she skips along and taps her stick, getting a charge out of the summer‐but end with the loss of her guiltlessness. To be sure, the key picture of the story comes at its peak: Myop, picking a pink rose for her heap of blossoms, notification the noose with which the dead man was hanged, acknowledges how his demise identifies with her legacy, and sets out her blooms out of regard.

The symbol the author talked mainly about is the Glass Castle, it represented so much in this book and got them through many years especially for Jeanette it stand for hope and for the better though there father rex walls couldn't physically build the glass house. I really didn't think the kids really cared about the house the dad had in mind not only because they lost faith in the fact that the dad been saying that for far too long but because it always stand for something more family, love and represent what the family went through and pain they went through for the better life they have now living. This imaginary glass home was there all along they may not have seen it but it was right in front of them the whole time it was there family, as long as they were together there glass (huge, fancy, stone house) remained it was where ever they were together. The castle shows by using a physical object to represent an idea or emotion the power of family and love the strength of it can get you through any blocking or stopping things of life. We are like the glass huge, fancy, stone house we are delicate and breakable we break easily and time is very valuable/very dearly loved before we fall into pieces and slip but we fall together and together we are not alone we will pick up the pieces together and it won't matter how long it takes because we'll get through together because no one gets left behind.

Everyone both young and old knows that the years of childhood can be difficult to all. However, in some works, the message of growing up isn't always clear. Symbolism is often used in fiction, such as in the story "Marigolds". The story is centered around the idea of growing up and finding yourself within the years of one's youth. The entire piece of literature tells the story of Lizabeth.

Have many people have ever been in a situation where they are being hurt? In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, there is a girl named Celie. Celie gets sexually assaulted by a white male truck driver and his name is never revealed. The man impregnates Celie and eventually takes away her kids and sells them. Alice Walker uses events that take place that transforms the way Celie is in the beginning and end of the book in a positive way.

When you think of the term “Flowers”, you usually think about its color, liveliness, and beauty until after it’s picked and begins to wither. At the time, people of color were treated poorly, so the story tries to get the readers to understand how the world worked at that particular time. In the beginning of the story, Walker uses diction to create an atmosphere of how joyful and innocent childhood could be. Ten-year-old Myop creates her own world in which nothing exists but her song and the stick she had clutched in her hand (Pg.1). Later on, in the story as she continues her journey she stumbles across flowers. The reason for flowers was to represent Myops innocence and then her loss of innocence. Wild flowers of different colors are being picked by Myop. The flowers represent innocence and the beauty of life. When the author states “An armful of strange, blue flowers with velvety ridges” the blue represented different as opposed to the regular things that Myop was accustomed to seeing, and the velvety symbolizing softness. When Myop picks the pink flower, this represents when she lost her

Which is to initially creates an aura of warmth and happiness then to dramatically shift to a more ominous mood. The aura of warmth and happiness is achieved by describing the beauty of the wilderness by describing the beauty of the wilderness as "flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush full of the brown,fragrant buds." As well as an air that held "a keenness that made her twitch. " Through these examples of imagery one can imagine young Myop picking flowers and exploring the forest. Even though Walker and establishes forest as a place of inquiry it is not until later in the story where she reveals the vexatious aspects of it.

Symbolism is the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea. When an author wants to suggest a certain mood or emotion, they can use symbolism to hint at what they are trying to say rather than just saying it. There are many things that symbolize something, even in our everyday life. For example, a dove is a symbol of peace, a red rose or red color stands for love or romance, and the color black is a symbol of evil or death. This literary technique helps the reader understand a deeper meaning of the central message that the author is trying to portray. In this case, Eudora Welty uses symbolism like a powerful tool. A manifold of symbolic connotations can be made in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty.

A symbol in literature is an object or idea that has a representation beyond the literal meaning of the object. Symbols add meaning and further a point the author is trying to make. In A Raisin in the Sun, Mama’s plant represents her dream. The play is written by Lorraine Hansberry, and it is a drama. It features an African American family from the Southside of Chicago. They live in an apartment with one window. Mama, the mother of the family has a dream of owning her own house. Throughout the entire play, Mama’s plant was mentioned. The plant continued to change as Mama’s dream was affected.

Due to her innocence, Myop is oblvious to her current home life, yet as she strays from home and adventures into the woods, her innocence is lost.. Myop starts out as a very young and innocent little girl. Her name is very ironic because “Myopia” is the medical name for nearsightedness, which is symbolic of her inability to see past the surface of her surroundings(dictionary.com).

Alice Walker shows Myop’s innocence and subsequent loss thereof through her usage of vivid imagery as well as the small setting and symbolism in The Flowers. Myop’s sudden exposure to the harsh reality of racism surrounding her shatters her innocence. This moment marks a change in the tone of the short story, showcasing the main character’s shift in how she understands the world around her. Myop is suddenly and violently thrust into a world in which skin color dictates how others in society will treat her.

In the short story The flowers, by Alice walker. She demonstrates how her background has influenced the story. For example, she provides evidence where it mentions that the character, Myop,“Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family's sharecropper cabin” (20). This shows that she is using related details to her own life. Her ethnicity plays a huge role in this story as well. Myop is said to be an African American, she was described as having, “ dark brown hand”(20). This information was provided by the author to emphasize the time it took place. For example, if a child was to find a dead body today their reaction might have been different. Instead of noticing things around the body the child would gone off to tell someone. But, in the

The flower is half pure and half rippled, so this is showing that nothing is perfect and everything has a twist to it. This further expresses the theme of appearance vs reality. This provides a connection between the two scenes; matters may seem okay and fine, but in most cases it is not. The monster realising about his horrible past and lost friends may not seem like an issue, but from the perspective of the monster, it is equivalent to death and misery. Consequently, this proves that isolation and understanding others is not easy.

For Myop her world includes only enjoyment and simplicities, “nothing existed for her but her song, the stick in her dark brown hand and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment” (Walker), even her families poverty is irrelevant to her as her family lives in a sharecropper cabin on another’s land while she just continues to explore the area further. The rising action approaches the climax when Walker foreshadows the dark peak of the story, “the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant . . . the air was damp, the silence close and deep” (Walker), changing the tone to a morbid and cryptic

She introduces the motif of childhood innocence with grace, as happy and light to the reader as the morning is to her protagonist. This lighthearted tone is marred contextually by the mention of her family being sharecroppers, though Myop is unconcerned, ignorance being bliss. It is after this though, that we find a shift in the mood. Myop finds her surroundings less pleasant, more “gloomy”. The setting gives the reader a suspenseful feeling as they continue.

The novel The Language of Flowers, is one written by author Vanessa Diffenbaugh. The novel centers around a young girl named who goes by the name of Victoria Jones. As the reader begins, they are made aware of Victoria’s upbringing and all the difficult challenges she had endured during her time living within the foster care system. Diffenbaugh does an excellent job intertwining both the past and present to help readers understand her turmoil, as well as her joy. The author expresses this through the main character Victoria, who eventually develops a gift for flowers in which she uses to changer not only her life, but others’ lives as well. In fact, flowers are the only way that Victoria feels connected to the world around her because she