Lizabeth In The Story Of Marigolds By Eugenia Collier

In a shanty town that is desperate for the necessities of lives lived the 14-15-year-old Lizabeth. The typical house was a rundown, wooden cabin-like house in a town facilitate ones in poverty. Marigolds by Eugenia Collier shows the story of an adolescent that went through the time in which she discovered true compassion and innocence. The most effective contributor to the most major milestone of Lizabeth’s change was a simple, glorious flower.
Lizabeth hasn’t experienced anything that has completely changed her from her playful, childish ways. “Then I lost my head entirely, mad with the power of inciting such rage, and ran out of the bushes in the storm of pebbles, straight toward Miss Lottie chanting madly “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich!””(220) This is one of the major turning points of Marigolds. This represents Lizabeth when she still had her childish urges. It was one of the things that the children did not deeply understand. “It should

This is a point when Lizabeth finally thinks deeper than a childish level. This is the turning point in which she begins to wonder what true adulthood is. She also experiences many times when she has mixed emotions and parts of the mind that pull to make decisions. “I indeed had lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst- a great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, The bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father's tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.”(222). This quote is an example of how Lizabeth was “neither child nor woman”. Because she had gone crazy, she had begun a journey that will make a mark in her life for eternity. Times like these can lead to learning vital messages that will affect how you do things, think, and