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Marigolds By Eugenia Collier Sparknotes

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Ahmed Ahmed Deb Branson Language arts March 3/10 2023 Marigolds analysis The story illustrates the main character's thoughts and feelings. conflicts are also internal and external. In the story of Marigold by author Eugenia Collier, she communicates the themes of poverty, maturity, innocence, and compassion through literary analysis. In the story Marigold, the narrator talks about her life living in poverty. The author says in lines 29–31, "The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing for us, for the black workers of rural Maryland." I think what the author was telling us is that the great depression had a huge toll on people living …show more content…

Poverty was the cage in which we were all caged. The author also tells us that everyone she knew was just as hungry as she was and how they were all trapped in a cycle of poverty that they couldn't get out of. Continue from lines 50–52: "And our hatred for it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred Flamingo, who knows that nature created him to fly free." The author uses the term two bread flamingos." Why would the author use that term for a zoo? Flamingos had their wings trimmed off so they couldn´t fly away. The author is using this as an example. She feels like her wings are trimmed off too, and she can't fly away from this cage, which is poverty. The author discusses maturity in lines 239–241: I felt humiliated, and I didn't enjoy feeling ashamed. The kid in me sulked and claimed it was all in good fun, but the woman in me shuddered at the notion of the malevolent attack I had organized. The narrator has complex thoughts; she doesn´t know what to think anymore; she knows what she did was wrong, but she doesn´t want to admit it. In another line, she says this in lines 291-293. Everything went out of tune like an accordion that had broken. What role did I play in this bizarre picture? I have no

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