Blooming Flowers : Chapter One

I was starting my first day at a new school. My palms were sweaty, my heart was thumping, and I had butterflies in my stomach. I took a deep breath and walked towards the grey doors. I thought about what the new school would be like; how the teachers were and how the students were. I missed my friends from my old school. I walked through those big grey doors to a whole new place.

Walker continues to use negative imagery and ideas to reveal her hesitation towards the arrangement. The author uses these literary devices because she wants to illustrate Roselily’s reasons for marrying the man. Roselily does this because it is what's best for her and her children. In a way, Roselily is being forced because she does not have a better alternative to her current life. By marrying the man, Roselily will have a renewed lifestyle and reputation. Roselily imagines the flowers in her hand as kids. When she does this, her head fills with murderous thoughts. “A squeeze around the flowers in her hands chokes off three and four and five years of breath” (Walker 4). As guilty as Roselily feels, this shows how Roselily wishes she never had given birth to any of her kids. When she tightens her grip on the bouquet of flowers, she thinks of her children. Roselily dreams she did not give birth to these kids. Roselily’s ideas of murder could possibly be associated with her obsession with the idea of her personal spirit being robbed from her. Weddings usually give off positive connotations, however in Roselily’s mind she disturbs the happy wedding with dark thoughts such as the idea of murder. Deviating from the topic of “personal spirit”, Brent studies the ferocious thoughts swarming Roselily’s mind. “Roselily’s rebellious thoughts during the wedding ceremony go so far as to enter the realms of murder and blasphemy. She expresses a wish that she could be free of her three

The Flowers By Alice Walker Written in the 1970's The Flowers is set in the deep south of America and is about Myop, a small 10-year old African American girl who explores the grounds in which she lives. Walker explores how Myop reacts in different situations. She writes from a third person perspective of Myop's exploration. In the first two paragraph Walker clearly emphasises Myop's purity and young innocence.

Rationale: This question complies with Bloom’s first level because it requires students to remember a previously learned fact from the story.

"I missed you too. I’ve been counting down the days until I can see you."

William flushed. "I ran out of ideas and it sounded cool! Shouldn't you be quiet?" Sierra and Arthur choked down their laughter.

“Yeah he’s a good kid,” she said as if I didn’t know him. “It was nice meeting you” she extended her

“It’s been fine, I guess.” he said looking away, and the conversation ended for a while.

I walked to the back of the store and grabbed a container with sodas in it to restock the fridges, "so how's school been?" Vince asks opening the cash register. "It sucks but the usual" I respond sighing.

The painting by Norman Rockwell, “The Problem We All Live With”, and short story, “Flowers” by Alice Walker, connects to the unit theme of “Defining Moments” in plentiful ways. In the painting, Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, is experiencing racial desegregation and being attacked for joining an all-white school. Meanwhile, in “Flowers,” Myop, a young girl is oblivious of the gruesome things in life until one day she wanders further her mother usually taker her, and ends up discovering a corpse which changes her entire perspective of the world. Defining moments occur at different ages, places, and times.

​By tracking her references to flowers, three different colors of flowers are repeated multiple times within the text and each seems to represent something different. The first colored flower that Offred presents to the reader in her narrative is blue: “On the wall, above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers, blue irises, watercolor. Flowers are still allowed.” (Atwood 7). Here, Offred is describing her room at the Commander’s house. She notices the blue flowers because they are one of the few things from the past—the “time before”— that have been able to make their way into the Republic. In this sense, they are familiar. Later, this suggestion is reinforced as she describes the blue flowers that appear in the

“What… You don't remember me anymore?” he said jokingly, and I took to running to him practically knocking

Growing up in the South and living life by working every day outside, and growing crops

There was a young girl named Blossom, she had a pretty normal life with a mother and a father. Her mother’s name was Sarah and her father the son of the famous Goku, Goten. There was a day where she was walking home from school then, BOOM!!!! the explosion came from her house's direction. She ran as fast as she could possibly go. When she got there she saw her worst nightmare, Her house was ablaze and her mother was pulled into a black semi truck, when her father tried to save her he was shot in the chest. Blossom was alone. That was 15 years ago, now Blossom is 18 now living with her cousin Pam and uncle Gohan. Everyday after school her and Pam train and train and train until they couldn’t move their bodies.

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