Clover's Love : The Child Of The Bye

At a young age, children do not understand the importance of having compassion. Instead, children hold innocence. Due to growing up, children lose their innocence that they mature into a compassionate person. In fact, a coming of age short story called “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, tells about a young girl named Lizabeth who grows up to become a compassionate person. For the most part, Lizabeth tells her childhood experience in a flashback on how she mostly remembers Miss Lottie’s marigolds.

She is upset by the loss of the day even though her mother attempts to distract her with a garden of flowering violets, her father also attempts to comfort her. Finally, she returns to sleep after dinner. Her memory is a positive memory and the motif if the violets are used to link the past and present as it will help her get through her dark times. In the visual her memory is included, and he mother confronting her is one of the main images that she remembers from this. The image of her mother comforting her is a very important one, as it establishes the role and persona of a mother at the time and how women in that era were seen as to stay home look after children and the men went out and worked to support the

Following her Nanny’s death Janie began to pursue her own romantic desires more freely. Before long, she meets her soon to be second husband Joe "Jody" Starks. Initially Jody is a gentleman. He showers Janie with compliments and promises in order to flatter her out of her first husband’s arms. Still new to the world, Janie mistakes flattery for love and succumbs to her need to absorb more about life and love, leaving behind her substandard life with Logan in lieu of personal development. She anticipated that “from now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom" (31).After Jody has convinced Janie to run away with him, however, his affection begins to waver. This leads Janie to understand that "[Jody] did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees.” However, “he spoke for far horizon” (50). “Janie knows that Joe does not fulfill the promise of the pear tree; but she intuits that she must travel in order to grow, and Joe is going places, first literally and then figuratively” (Chinn).

“Stop crying,” she said sharply, “I’m ashamed of you!”” (l. 28-32 p 99) It seems like she’s disappointed of her son, because he’s weak. And it might indicate that she’s also very disappointed of her husband’s behaviour.

“‘He’s resting,’ Mother comforted herself. ‘Boys outgrow their strength they need extra rest. If only he’d eat and go outdoors in the air, though!’” (117). On the other hand the author shows us that the mother only focuses on the daughter and is concerned about what she does when her son is not around. Jolley presents this to the reader when the mother brings her daughter to Mrs. Lady’s house to clean.

“Earlier today, we learned that an attempt was made on your cousin’s life,” her father said to her. “Your mother has so much grief for your cousin, because of the actions that he has made since the past two years – deeds worthy of being told to all

School has just let out for summer. John has daily chores to complete to help his dad with the workload of the ranch. John liked the work on the ranch he had a love for the land and the horses. Between his girlfriend, mom, and sisters john felt overcrowded with women and wanted to be away from them. When john got into the truck to leave he tells his friend “...Women! Between Kelsey my sisters and my mom I haven’t had a peaceful minute in weeks!” John was ready for a change of scenery.

The family was planning a surprise party for Julissa’s older sister, but their plans never came through. Because the party was called off and of the catastrophic event that occurred the same

Nihal Paidipelly “ After our few chores around the tumbledown shanty, Joey and I were free to run wild in the sun” (pg.1). In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, Elizabeth is described as immature, carefree, and confused. Throughout the story Collier shows Elizabeth’s growth mentally from a girl to a woman while she matures. In “Marigolds” the narrator’s experiences illustrate the theme that one cannot have both compassion and innocence. The first experience that the narrator has that shows that she cannot have both compassion and innocence is when she is hurt by her own actions toward Miss Lottie.

I sniffed and tried to control my face. No one could ever tell what Mother thought or felt by looking at her.” Mattie looks helpless during this time that no one can really help her mother getting better. Mother don’t want mattie got sick so mattie and grandfather leave

On Rosaleen and Lily’s adventure they found a house, it is a honey farm. Living there are three women August, May, and June. Lily hid the fact that her mother was dead but deep down inside she knew these women knew her mother. The three women were very suspicious about Lily but they kept that to

In the beginning Clover wanted to be accepted by the other girls. So some examples are, she wanted to jump in the puddles on rainy days with the girl but,in the story her mom said “No Clover you have rainy day toys so you can stay inside and be safe and warm”, and she didn’t feel comfortable because she thought that Clover would not be accepted. Clover also wanted to got on the other side of the fence and say “hi” to

"Her hand moved behind his head and supported it. Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously"(Steinbeck 455). Rose, even after losing her child, was still able to keep the flicker of life and hope in the young boys Pa to save him from certain death. With all the struggles the Joad family went through to get this far even this little action of kindness made allowed Rose to feel happy once again.

Throughout the children’s book, tone was used majorly. Like stated beforehand, the tone was childlike and youthful since the author wrote from a kid's point of view. The child telling the story was an African American girl named Clover. Since she was young, she did not fully

Alice Walker’s story, “The Flowers” is a short story that illustrates the kind of struggle an African American girl, Myop, goes through in the hostile and prejudiced southern states of the U.S. The little girl’s innocence is shattered when she stumbles upon a dead man. The clothes of the man, an African-American, are astray and the face has rotted, bringing to her mind the horrifying truth of the injustices and brutality waged against the African Americans. The man was of black American origin like her, and his brutal death opens a new experience into her innocent life. The theme of the story is the loss of innocence by the young innocent girl Myop.