The story “The Flowers” is built around the growth and life experience by a young innocent ten-year-old girl named Myop. Myop, like many children, sees the world through pure eyes of their youth. As Myop matures and gains more experience through life, she realizes that the world is not a pleasant place to be. By the end of the story, Myop has grown up by finding out the world is not peachy. Myop’s personal growth is important because it expresses that all people must go through a difficult growing experience in order to realize and learn the world is not all delightful. The beginning of Myop’s story conveys her as a pure and youthful child, who is naive of the world’s wickedness. In the beginning, Walker notes, “She was ten, and nothing …show more content…
According to Walker, “She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts ” (Walker 5). Although Myop has taken this path before, the journey feels different. Walker employs disturbing words to develop a depiction of a scanty girl wandering through a somber forest. Children have tendencies to be wary of menacing and ominous environments. Walker continues to use uninviting and tenebrous phrases as Myop continues through the forest, to show a change in tone of the overall …show more content…
Walker spotlights, “It was the rotten remains of a noose, a bit of a shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil” (Walker 5). As Myop looked around for flowers, she came upon a beautiful, wild, pink rose. However, she noticed there was an elevated mound which contained the remains of the noose. Myop realized that she had walked on a grave of a man, who had committed suicide. Thereafter, “Myop laid down her flowers. And summer was over” (Walker 5). The excerpt is giving the reader a description of Myop growing up and showing her respect to the dead. Additionally, summer represents all things glorious and lighthearted. At the end of the story, it says “and summer was over”(Walker 5). This is intended to represent Myop flourishing and grasping that if she does not mature and comprehends the world is wicked, and appalling phenomenon could