Sienna Follenvaider Ms. Leibowitz English/Humanities February 8th “Marigolds” Literary Analysis Essay “Marigolds”, a short story by Eugenia W. Collier takes place in the 1960’s during the great depression. Poverty has struck the town in rural Maryland, where fourteen year old Lizabeth struggles to find out who she is. One day out of pure boredom, children begin to throw stones at Miss Lottie's precious marigolds. The theme of Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier is coming of age, which is developed through symbolism, characterization, and conflict.
Having lost her mother in birth and with her whole life encircled by death, Vada Sultenfuss, the gloomy 11-year-old daughter of Harry Sultenfuss, the town’s funeral parlour manager, is no wonder that death became almost an obsession to her. In addition, Vada has no friends in school, she is a hypochondriac tomboy, her grandmother has Alzheimer 's, and worst of all, her best friend is Thomas J. Sennett, another unpopular kid who is allergic to just about everything. During the summer break in 1972, Vada will have her first crush, she will join a poetry writing class, but most of all, when the cheerful and quirky Shelly DeVoto takes up the position of make-up artist at Harry’s mortuary, she will gradually find the maternal figure she always needed.
The Chrysanthemums Literary Analysis One of the themes of “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is gender inequality. In this short story, the main character Elisa Allen was a strong, smart woman who was stuck being a common housewife. Elisa wishes she could go out and be like the tinker, sleeping under the stars and adventuring every day of her life. Elisa’s husband owns a ranch of some sorts, and when he tells Elisa of the business deal he’d just made he gave her an unspecific explanation, or a dumbed down one so he doesn’t “confuse her”.
In the story, “Alice” by Shel Silverstein many inferences about can be made about being courageous and taking chances can be made. To start, silverstein expresses “she changed while other folks tried nothin at all.” this suggest that this metaphor is used to show Alice is different in the way she does things because, she took risks which some people strive to do but don 't. Overall, the theme of Alice is to be courageous and to try taking risks to be different and to.-I 've your own life. Also, silverstein expresses, a “ABABCC” rhyme scheme, this expresses that this rhyme scheme is used to show the importance of line B this implies that line B is important because it is the most repeated line and in line B it always talks about her
In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, Walker’s use of foreshadowing in the middle of the story builds a suspenseful mood. One example of foreshadowing in the story is the description given when protagonist, Myop, was exploring the woods.
I could see Mrs. Dubose’s … It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Dubose’s… Winter and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children’s heartbreak.
Compare Contrast: Where the Red Fern Grows Relationships in the Novel and the Movie As you readers and movie watchers may all wonder, will there EVER be a movie that is the same as its novel counterpart? The answer is, we all highly doubt it. If we were to watch a movie exactly the same as the book version, wouldn’t it be quite boring? Yes it would.
And the Summer was Over Summer is a universal symbol with as positive connotation filled with happiness and warm, long nights. When the temperature drops and jackets get pulled from the back of your closet, winter is approaching. Winter can be a time of snow mans and hot chocolate or a period of sadness, mystery, guilt, and regret. Alice Walker’s last sentence of her beautiful story, “The Flowers,” states, “And the summer was over,” which is a symbolic explanation that after every happy moment of euphoria comes a time of sadness and sorrow.
Alice Walker’s story “Roselily” is about hardships and doing what is best for the ones you love. The story elegantly shows Roselily’s emotions and thoughts about her marriage through diction and symbolism. These literary devices portray an unsure mother about her decision to marry a religious man for the sake of her children and her future. In the very beginning of the story Roselily describe herself as “dragging herself across the world” (A. Walker 266).
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
Walker explores the loss of innocence due to zemblanic discoveries made by the protagonist. The use of foreshadowing in, “Today she made her own path”, declares the way in which Myop has decided to take control of her own destiny, which is important as making her own path will lead to a wider perception of the realities of the world. The
In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior. At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short story writer and a Nobel Prize winner. Munro is famous for writing the short stories that has revolutionized its architecture, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward. Her narratives feel very private and intimate. The characters in her stories are always in search of revelation. The stories she writes are often social critiques that take place around Huron County, Ontario, where she lives.
Alice Walker, the author of an essay “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, is a famous American writer and activist. She speaks for the rights of people and helps the offended while supporting revolutionists and leaders whom she considers to be bringing change to the world and seek for its transformation. Her essay, “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, dedicated to the struggle of African American women, is based on the feminist insights of the author. Based on her own experience, the experience of others, and the historical events, the author reveals the topic of the suppressed talent of African American women, of their lost artistic skills resulting from slavery and the imposed on them role. However, Walker point out that somehow the dark past has not completely damaged the creative power of the mothers and grandmothers since it has manifested itself in the small things they did for the people they loved.
Throughout history there has always been a fight for education. Alice Walker’s poem “Women” showed how women fought in the mid 1800’s for their children’s education despite their African heritage. During the 1960’s Daisy Bates was fighting in Little Rock to successfully integrate Little Rock Central High School with the Little Rock Nine. Daisy Bates and Alice Walker’s “Women” were both powerful determined women fighting for a cause, there cause might have been the same but there were still many similarities and differences. All these amazing women were not fighting for themselves, they were fighting for the future.
