Desert Flower Sparknotes

“Marigolds”, written by Eugenia Collier in 1969, is a coming-of-age story about a girl who makes the development from an immature and innocent child to that of a compassionate and mature woman. Taking place during the Great Depression in rural Maryland, the story shows both external and internal conflicts of Lizabeth, a 14-going-on-15 year-old girl. She was stuck not only in a nation ransacked by an economic crisis, but also in the confusion and fear that comes along with growing up. With all the changes happening (both inside and outside of herself), she finds that “the world had lost its boundary lines” and that she also had to cross a line herself: the line which marks the end of childhood and all its innocence. Lizabeth’s internal turmoil

The author shows the reader what she wants them to think, feel, and do with the information through the structure. In the story there is a shift of setting and time. The Flowers begins in a bright morning adventure, but as Myop continues with her adventure, she ends up in a dank part of the woods. This structure is parallel to the story of Eve in the Garden of Eden. Myop is a pure girl who wanders among the vibrant foliage, “...bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes” (Walker para. 4). Eve is also tempted by a strange plant, an apple, as is Myop. In The Flowers, Walker wrote that Myop was drawn by blue flowers. Such parallels to the snake and apple symbols of the Genesis story will lead the reader to sense that

Living in poverty and having to face one’s crumbling society is extremely stressful. In Eugenia Collier’s short story, “Marigolds,” the main character, Lizabeth, and the other citizens of the town she lives in, including her parents, her friends, and Miss Lottie, must learn to cope with that stress, and in Lizabeth’s case, learn how to deal with the effects of maturation. The different types of conflict within “Marigolds” are man versus man, man versus society, and man versus self because Lizabeth has to face peer pressure, the living conditions brought by the Great Depression, as well as the development of her own emotions.

There comes a point in one’s life when they must recognize the hardships placed upon them, and instead of being ignorant of those hardships, they must confront them head-on. In “Marigolds”, a short story by Eugenia Collier, the main protagonist, Lizabeth, encounters various struggles that come with living in a poor town in rural Maryland during the Depression, allowing her to learn more about growing up and accepting reality with all its flaws. Lizabeth is a 14-year-old girl who feels a conflict between her inner child and her inner woman, as she is unable to do anything that satisfies both sides of her. She feels too old to be a child, yet too young to be a

In Eugenia W. Collier’s short story, “Marigolds,” the narrator’s experiences support the idea that one cannot have both compassion and innocence. The story is written in first person by a woman named Lizabeth who is recalling some life-changing events from her childhood, in which she undergoes significant internal conflict and change. “I recall that devastating moment when I was suddenly more woman than child, years ago in Miss Lottie’s yard,” (Collier, 1). Lizabeth was eventually able to grow and see the world from a more mature and realistic point of view. The events experienced by the protagonist allowed her to realize for herself that she could not remain innocent while having compassion.

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.

“Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier is a story about the coming of age. The story takes place in the 1930s in a small town in Maryland. It describes the Lizabeth and her friends torturing their old neighbor, Ms. Lottie, by destroying her flowers. They say that the flowers are too perfect for their boring world. Later in the story, Lizabeth changes for the better. This is due to hardships in her life and her learning to sympathetic towards others. Collier creates Lizabeth as a child-like character in the beginning, and changes her to become mature and compassionate by the end, showing the process of adolescence and transforming into a woman.

The California Floristic Province, is the only hot-spot that occurs largely in the United States; it is home to exceptionally high plant diversity and varieties of habitat. Stretching along the west coast starting in southwestern Oregon, it covers 70% of the State of California, and into northwestern Baja California, Mexico.

In the narrative,”Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, is a story about Lizabeth, the narrator, tells a story from her childhood in a dusty Depression-era town. The main characters were this story is taking place in a shanty town during a hot september, where the narrator tells a story about Miss Lottie.The main conflict of the story is that a devastating moment in where Lizabeth, lose her innocence, her is past for a bad time and her not feel compassion for anything and Miss Lottie feel only compassion for the flowers when she see that are destroying.The parents of Lizabeth are past by a bad time, they argue in your room and Lizabeth and her brother listen aut when your father cry because he don’t have job and your mother have is responsible for

The heat wave of the summer of 1952, Djinda wiped her hands against her dress. Her mother would kill her, it was dirty and the pink had faded. Her feet were bare and she hurried across the burning sand toward the small house her father had built. They’d both compromised each of their cultures; her father could do whatever he wanted that involved his culture but as long as he built her mother a house. This had been before she was born; her mother had also wanted to go to the hospital for her birth but had compromised to let the women of her husband’s tribe in there with her – much to the doctor’s protests.

In this text I will be telling you about the marigolds. Once a few years ago a young girl lived in a small neighborhood when she was young and her and her friends used to hide in bushes and mess with Miss.Lottie. Lizabeth mother was never home because she was working. Her father was unemployed. The little girl was in her bed and she couldn’t sleep so she woke her brother up and put on some clothes and left. When she got outside she ran for a little while and she ran over to Miss.Lottie’s garden and tore them out the ground

Anybody can change your life in a negative or a positive way. Marguerite is a little girl who values education and she admire a woman by the name of Mrs. Flowers. As the story progresses you can tell that Mrs. Flowers is very fond of Marguerite and Marguerite thinks that Mrs. Flowers should be spoken to with respect, because she believes that's what she deserves. The theme of the story is you never know who is going to change your life. Mrs. Flowers taught her that not everybody needs an education to be intelligent, because they learn in their own special way that others may not understand, but to them it like second nature.

When a boy named Courage shatters his confinement within a holy jewel, he is tasked with searching for gems called Sacred Emeralds that has been lost for years beyond count. A nameless evil lurks within the shadows of planet Venusia and its inhabitants needs the hero's help if all is to end well. Goddess Flowerensia depends upon Courage to venture into territory unknown to him to save the people and creatures of her kingdom, Velmelkia, if they are in danger by becoming a knight. Will the hero succeed in his endeavor? Or will he succumb to the evil that threatens the dwellers of the goddess's blessed

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