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The Flowers By Alice Walker

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In the short story, “The Flowers” by Alice Walker shows the main character Myop matures by facing the true nature of the world. Myop, the protagonist finds herself looking down at the body whose head is apart from the body. The author's use of the dead body propels character development by Myop seeing the nature of the world which she had not seen before. Myop laid her flowers and her summer was over. The dead body is the literary device in the text; the dead body is shown to reveal that Myop's innocence is gone. In the beginning of the story Myop starts out her day,it was beautiful harvesting was today. Myop skipped lightly, the day was beautiful nothing could go wrong in a day as breathtaking as this one. When Myop skips it shows that nothing
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