Eugenia Collier

The transformation in people's lives is caused by a variety of factors. There are a variety of these factors, but none is more influential than stress. In Eugenia Collier’s short story Marigolds, it tells the narrative of a young African-American girl living in rural Maryland. Due to her frustration with life, she tears up Miss Lottie’s marigolds. In the story Marigolds, the author uses the narrator’s transformation and characterization to convey that identity is only found in times of crisis. The

suggests that family disruption, poverty, and deprivation cause children to mature faster than they should. Lizabeth had to endure all of these conditions, which is why her loss of innocence was abrupt and difficult. In the short story “Marigolds,” Eugenia Collier utilizes symbols and conflict to illustrate that overcoming the loss of innocence is

of the biggest things people do not know how to use. The “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are both about dark times happening in their lives and how to get through them. Although both authors developed the idea that hard times are a part of life, Collier uses setting, and Hughes uses metaphors. Every author has the same idea, which is to make an impact on their readers. For example, Collier and Hughes impacted their readers when they wrote “Marigold” and “Mother

In the short story “Marigolds”, Eugenia Collier uses character development of the protagonist and mood to help the reader better understand that happiness doesn’t come from destroying one’s attempt at making beauty. Opening into the story, Collier uses mood to help the reader focus on the climax. The mood of the story starts out quite dim, dreary, and depressed. The narrator explains how she believes that God wasn’t accommodating and didn’t provide for them in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth

The Underlying Message Hidden Within Marigolds In Eugenia Collier’s short story, Marigolds, Lizabeth learns the hard truth of growing up from losing her temper which blurred her morals. At a turning point in a girl’s life, she will painfully transition from childhood to womanhood. Collier masterfully conveys this theme by her use of literary device foreshadowing, metaphors, and symbolism several times in the narrative. At the very beginning of the story, Lizabeth, looking back on her youthful days

When adolescents transform into adults, they think of this transformation based solely on appearance, but it is actually how they transform emotionally as well which leads into their highly yearnful adulthood. In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the protagonist Lizabeth recalls her poverty-stricken childhood and the major events she experiences that causes her to be able to become more mature. By Lizabeth maturing from an ignorant girl to a compassionate woman, she is able to grow an

Both the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and the poem “Hard on the Gas,” by Janet S. Wong convey the theme that is “growing up and maturing isn’t always easy”. “Marigolds is the story of an adolescent who is growing up in the Great Depression. Through hard experiences and tumultuous emotions, the narrator learns that growing up is full of ups and downs. “Hard on the Gas” is a poem about a grandchild driving with his or her grandfather. The grandchild realizes that the road isn’t always

Sometimes one has to go through alienation and isolation to reach a transformation. In both “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier and “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, the characters transform majorly due to their feelings of isolation. Marigolds is about a woman called Lizabeth recalling her coming of age experience and Miss Brill is about a lonely woman living in a fantasy life that she has created for herself. The theme of alienation and a definitive transformation is evident in both stories.

Collier uses symbols such as a potted geranium and marigolds to reveal the theme that, when a person is at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood, one must be able to

adolescence will bring. Eugenia Collier’s “Marigolds,” showcases Lizabeth’s tumultuous and painful transition from childhood innocence to the compassion one develops as an adolescent. As Lizabeth listens to her parents’ suffering in horror, she feels as though, “the world had lost its boundary lines. [Her] mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; [her] father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child” (Collier ). Before this