Have you ever wondered how lightning bugs of fireflies light up? They do it by chemical reactions take place, energy is either absorbed or released. In certain special cases energy can be released, or emitted, as light. The author of Marigold, Eugenia Collier has a voice in her writing. Even so her characters in the story have a limited vocabulary she is still able to very descriptive and strong words.
In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier, Lizabeth is an African-American girl going through the struggles of poverty during the Great depression. I take that Eugenia Collier uses “Marigolds” to express her challenges as an African-American teenager during the 1950s. Her biased writing is portrayed in the story when Lizabeth can mostly only remember “…dust—the brown crumbly dust of late summer…” representing the poverty of the town she lived in, making her feel surrounded by it. A different memory she recalls is the “dazzling strip of bright blossoms” and being a kid still, she didn’t understand the Marigolds and thought they didn’t fit in with the rest of the ugliness.
In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier, dramatic characterization is used to deepen the meaning of the theme by making the readers analyze the story and the characters more critically. In “Marigolds,” Collier uses Lizabeth’s actions throughout the story to create depth as to who she is to make the readers see the theme more clearly. This would be when Lizabeth tears up the marigolds after all her emotions build up and she has to face Miss Lottie at the end. Collier does this to show Lizabeth’s final realization of the woman whom she is coming to be and how she is changing when going through losing her innocence. Secondly, the author Eugenia W. Collier uses dramatic characterization to tell the reader about
Poverty in the Rural South of America People in poverty aspire to live similar to a middle-class citizen or a person who lives a life with no stress. In the memoir, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Moss illustrates the difficult conditions of a common family living in poverty in rural Alabama. Moss suffers from an abusive father who is addicted to alcohol, a mother who tolerates the abusive relationship of her husband, and lack of the minimum essentials to maintain living. The lack of minimum essentials includes food, health, and housing. The hardships of being in poverty inspire Moss to change her future.
Many people have moments where an event or something gets between them, their relatives, or their friends. Although, soon enough, family and companions get through it and remember what is most important: their relationship. In both Flora & Ulysses and Raymie Nightingale, the author, Kate DiCamillo communicates a message about the concept of good relationships. The book Flora & Ulysses takes place in present day plus it is fiction. Raymie Nightingale during the summer of 1970, and it is realistic fiction.
In the coming of age short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the author creates a coming of age moment for the main character Lizabeth when she destroys Miss Lottie's marigolds. This event causes a moral development for Lizabeth, as she learns of the harms the innocence of childhood can cause and of the necessities of compassion. This development is shown in the author’s use of characterization and symbolism. The author uses characterization to showcase the coming of age elements at various points throughout the story, but especially around the turning points; the final destruction of the marigolds and the aftermath.
“The Flowers” Sometimes we learn things about the people around us that we don’t want to know, we learn things about the world we want to purge from our minds. In ‘The Flowers” Myop is introduced to a cruel and harsh reality that was very prominent at the time of her life. What she learns causes Myop to be changed forever, she loses the freedom and happiness of summer, and into the gloomy chill of the next season of her life.
Concerning Yolen’s book in general, this has been classified as different narrative forms because of its content. Children’s book, fairy tale for young adults, adult book, Holocaust tale or novel are some of the categorizations mentioned in the interview by RoseEtta Stone. Even in the author’s webpage, this work is classified in “Adult Novel”, “Adults”, “Young Adult” and “Fairy Tales”. What is undeniable is that, although “Briar Rose was written and published as an adult book” (Stone n. pag.), it can be read by young adult readers to start being familiarized with some events of the past. In fact, this book has been introduced into “many high schools and college courses as a core text” (Stone n. pag.) despite being a work of fiction.
In John Steinbeck’s short story, ‘The Chrysanthemums’, Elisa Allen is a thirty-five year old farmer’s wife whose underappreciated sensuality appears in the blooming flowers of her chrysanthemum garden. Elisa gets little attention from her husband even as she expresses her traditional skills in housekeeping and gardening. When a persistent repairman commends her for her chrysanthemums, she is willing to open up and give a part of herself in the form of chrysanthemum sprouts. Once the repairman gains his daily bread, the sprouts are seen strewn across the road into town. Symbols of repressed growth, femininity, and manipulation signify that Elisa Allen’s womanly qualities are overlooked to the point where men can manipulate her feminine nature
In the Poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto the theme of the piece is, to sacrifice for others in the name of love is worth everything you have. the theme of the story, though, is improved upon by literary devices. The first literary device present in the poem is Simile. The simile helps compare the items in the story that the main character talks about or saw while in the Drugstore with his girl on the date. While going through the store he comes across candies that were “tiered like bleachers”( Soto, 26), there were so many choices and his girl picked out the chocolate on one of the shelves, although what she picked out was more expensive than he thought and couldn’t afford it.
In John Steinbeck’s story “The Chrysanthemums”, it details, along as follow a lady and the plant she loves to grow. Within the story a young lady expresses her love for this specific plant. She explains why she grows it and how highly she holds them. It gives her a sense of pride and ease when she takes care of them. It is a way of escape from her feeling of confinement.
In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier the coming of age short story where a now grown up Lizabeth reminisce her childhood especially going into Ms.Lottie’s garden. Ms. Lottie, who did not like children but treated her precious marigolds gets them destroyed by Lizabeth. After destroying them, Lizabeth realizes her errors believing she became a women in that moment. This short story has several literary device that are used in it to help deepen the meaning. The use of imagery, symbolism and metaphors in “Marigolds” helps the reader that it is important to not lose
A tangerine is not only a citrus fruit, but also a county in Florida that is home to Paul Fisher and his older brother Erik. In the novel titled Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher, the protagonist, is not only bullied at school, but also at home by his brother, while having to live in the house where his dad lives in the illusion of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream.” In this new county that Paul moves to, he constantly has to put up with natural disasters like muck fires and sinkholes. The move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine County, Florida is the start of a new chapter for the Fisher family, especially Paul.
The story "Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier is a short story that goes through the journey of Lizabeth. Lizabeth is a young girl that goes through an event that transitions her from a child to a woman. She shows many different sides to herself. She is wild, immature, and conflictual. Throughout the story, she comes to show that with maturity comes compassion.
In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior. At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.
