Myops 'Epiphany In Alice Walker's The Flowers'

Myops “epiphany” Childhood innocence is the purest of all things. Losing this innocence is like losing the joys and freedom of childhood. In Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” a little girl named Myop sees the world through a perspective lens. She doesn’t see the hardship and reality of life. The line “and the summer was over” indicates that Myop’s childhood was over. Overtime, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can’t be innocent forever, but there’s something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.-Albert Hammond Jr. ten-year-old Myop has lost her innocence from gaining knowledge. She has realized the hazards and dangers of the outside world, and the horrifying sights that are out there. In the passage, “it seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly… that the days had never been as

Leaving her family’s sharecroppers cabin she goes to explore the woods, since she is a child exploring and collecting things is some of the excitements of childhood. In paragraph four, it states “she had explored the woods behind the house many times… today she made her own path.” Far away from home Myop has reached her stopping point by noon. The passage states, “It seems gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. Myops setting has changed and she is no longer in her comfort zone. The land she is in now isn’t like her peaceful land she usually travels it’s strange. Myop is uncomfortable so she begins to “circle back to peacefulness,” she wants to go back to her innocent place. Turning back she stepped right into the head of a dead body. “It had been a tall man” in the story. Since Myop is only ten she shows interest in the horrific scene. She finds a wild pink rose which symbolizes her innocence where she had stepped into the deceased man head, she collected the flower and gazed around. She showed interest in the little things like the flower until she discovered something more. In the final paragraph it says, “She noticed