Your introduction goes here. You should have some questions or sentences that start off broad, or general, and work their way down to the specific. The most specific statement in your introduction is your thesis statement. The thesis statement should look like the following sentence. In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth acts like a child, but eventually accepts the fact that she must be an adult. Lizabeth resists behaving like an adult. For example, after Joey antagonized Lizabeth by saying she must be afraid, she "cursed and spat on the ground - [her] favorite gesture of phony bravado" (79). This shows that Lizabeth is still unable to say no to peer pressure. This also shows that Lizabeth can be easily manipulated