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Imagery And Symbolism In The Flowers By Alice Walker

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In the short story, “The Flowers,” by Alice Walker, they are begin with lots of life and happiness which changed within one short moment. Myop is a curious strong in caring young girl. She has blinded by the joy she is surrounded by. I was a short story progresses she learns more and adventures out of her safe zone which makes for a huge turn of events. Myop is a young 10-year-old, African-American girl that adores flowers. She searches high and low to find them. She is ignorant to only notice the positive things going on around her. There’s lots of imagery in paragraph three saying, “... watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil...” which not only tied in with imagery but stood for something much bigger. This quote is an intense symbol representing two separate things; the white bubbles and the thin black soil; the white men as the bubbles in the black man as the soil. The …show more content…

This story is filled with multiple symbols that helped pull us into the depth of the story. The flowers, Myop picked them all the time, she was obsessed with beautiful and unique things. The flowers represented the ignorance that she saw in this world and how beautiful things come from bad situations. In paragraph three, four, and eight, “... silver ferns and wildflowers”, and “blue flowers with velvety ridges…”, and finally,”...wild pink rose. As she picked it to add to her bundle...”, all three of those are examples of the flowers meaning something to her. The last symbol that is the most story changing, is the noose, “... she noticed a raised mound, a ring, around the roses route.”, this frazzled Myop, her intrest grew off of the flowers and went completely on the noose. The noose represented slavery and by showing that the body is only just starting to rot it tells the reader that it is still in a time period with

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