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Summary Of Marigolds By Eugenia Collier

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Marigolds In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth lost her innocence when she was almost 15. How did she lose her innocence you might ask? Well this story takes place in 1929 during the Great Depression. Everyone was poor in the town Lizabeth lives in. Miss Lottie, Lizabeth’s neighbor, planted some marigolds on her front yard, but everyone hated them because it didn’t fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard and reminded everyone how poor they were. One night, Lizabeth woke up and eavesdropped on her parent’s conversation. She heard her father say that it’s his fault that they’re poor. Her mother kept telling him to stop worrying about it but he ended up crying. After Lizabeth heard her father cry, she got really angry and

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