Growing up and struggling to go through different challenges is what fourteen year old Lizabeth experiences. The author allows her readers to be a part of Lizabeth’s challenges by using imagery to help them visualize Lizabeth’s perspective. Through sound and sight, readers are able to empathize with Lizabeth and her situation. In Eugenia W. Collier’s short story “Marigolds”, imagery is used to create an image in a reader’s mind that they can visualize through different senses. The effect of the author’s use of imagery allows the readers to feel as if they are with Lizabeth, experiencing what it is like from her point of view. The effect of Collier’s use of imagery results in the reader’s ability to feel as if they are with Lizabeth and causes them to empathize with Lizabeth during her struggles. …show more content…
Through Collier’s use of imagery, readers can imagine hearing Lizabeth’s father’s cries in their mind and can understand how she feels. Her father’s cries worried Lizabeth and, as an effect, readers sympathize with her as they are put in her situation. Readers are able to experience what Lizabeth feels as an effect of imagery through the use of sound. In addition to Collier’s use of sound, the author uses sight to allow her readers to visualize images through the descriptions of imagery from Lizabeth’s perspective. As an effect, readers are able to picture what Lizabeth sees. As Lizabeth recalls, Miss. Lottie’s marigolds, readers are able to picture the bright gold marigolds and understand why they are the reason for Lizabeth and her friends to torment Miss.