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Transitioning To Adulthood In Marigolds By Eugenia Collier

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Many complications come when transitioning to adulthood. The story “Marigolds” made by Eugenia Collier, it shows all the complications she started to face when she was starting to transition to adulthood. As well it was much harder for her since she was african american during the great depression. In the story “Marigolds” it states that Lizabeth thought it’s silly destroying Miss Lottie's marigolds. On page 219 lines 190-192 it said. “I just stood there peering through the bushes, torn between wanting to join the fun feeling that it was all a bit silly.” This shows that she is maturing as she always thought it was funny to annoy Miss Lottie. On lines 187-189 page 219 everyone expected her to collect pebbles but she did not. “everyone except …show more content…

On page 222 lines 333-337 it is stated that she is destroying the marigolds, I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms. The fresh smell of early morning and of dew-soaked marigolds spurred me on as I went tearing and mangling and sobbing”. Soon after miss Lottie sees her and she knew that her childhood faded. This stated on page 223 lines 351-359 “M-miss Lottie! I scrambled to my feet and just stood there and stared at her, and that was the moment when childhood faded and womanhood began. That violent, crazy act was the last act of childhood. For as I gazed at the immobile face with the sad, weary eyes, I gazed upon a kind of reality that is hidden to childhood. The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility. She had been born in squalor and lived in it all her life.” These details support that adulthood is a rough transition

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