In the short story, Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier, begins with the main character, Elizabeth. The story is told in first person, being told by Elizabeth when she gets older. Throughout this story I felt overwhelmed with reality;[ADM3] I was showered with confusion, contradictions, and it seems as though I read this story of harsh truth in a dream. Lizabeth's character is so close to myself, yet so far away, that I detest her, especially.
The story does not focus on the troubles society presents to the narrator Elizabeth , but rather is focused on the conflict within her. Collier uses marigolds to show that the changes from childhood to adulthood cause fear in Elizabeth, which is the enemy of compassion and hope. Growing up is an extremely complicated and deep subject for just about everyone. There are extremely different emotions that go along with innocence and maturity.
Hearing Lizabeth's reactions and thought about her journey through growing up shows how maturation is a both beautiful and ugly. Lizabeth lived. Collier all share the common flaw of selfishness. Some examples of mood are confused, rage. The mood develops when Lizabeth was upset at Ms. Lottie because she had a perfect garden before the depression.
Elizabeth says that destroying the marigolds is her last act of childhood because it leads her to finally comprehend the rationale behind Miss Lottie's seemingly cryptic habits. Through her new perspective, Elizabeth learns to refrain from superficial judgments, and she begins to have more empathy for others.
The mood in this story has two parts. One is part of growing up is learning that there are consequences to one's action. The second is all human beings need beauty in their life. The marigolds represent the beauty in the gloomy town, the beauty in Miss Lottie's dull life. Why did Eugenia write marigolds? Category: events and attractions religious events. She reports that she wrote the story during a time when she was quite unhappy.
What are marigolds a symbol of? Which setting is most important to the story marigolds? Which setting is most important to the story? Is marigolds a true story? What is the conflict in marigolds?
Why are the marigolds important to the narrator? I loved the voice of the narrator, but despised the main character who was in fact the narrator. Who would have thought a 14 going on 15 year old girl could be so cruel?
How could Lisbeth taunt old Miss Lottie and tease her slow son? Why would she be so hateful? To trample old Miss Lottie's marigolds that she toiled over for so long, to rip them up by the fistful when This book left me in tears of frustration.
To trample old Miss Lottie's marigolds that she toiled over for so long, to rip them up by the fistful when Miss Lottie had never done anything to her, was disgusting. Or what about Lisbeth getting all the other kids to gang up and dance around Miss Lottie saying,"Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich!
This book dared to say, "One cannot have both compassion and innocence. Why Lisbeth had to learn compassion by destroying the only beauty in an old woman's life I don't know. In my mind, she had no compassion, if she had she would have done something, anything to make it up to Miss Lottie, not just tell us that she too, now plants marigolds.
Lisbeth was noting but a child on the loose, her family all away working and she herself completely untrained. Hated This Book. It doesn't end making anything right, everything is left in the tatters Lisbeth created. Did I mention she swore at Miss Lottie? However, Miss Lottie did the same back. View all 63 comments. Sep 07, Sandra rated it liked it Shelves: anthologies-poetry-short-stories , read-in A short and sad read. I think it speaks, more than anything, of the people whom even when trapped in struggling circumstances, still puts meaning and value to things in order to keep moving forward, and the people with the same circumstances that will undermine others' efforts and progress out of envy or spite.
Thus, this enables the group's collective demise. Similar to the metaphor that refers to a pot of crabs, in which one tries to crawl out of it but is prevented from escaping by the other A short and sad read. Similar to the metaphor that refers to a pot of crabs, in which one tries to crawl out of it but is prevented from escaping by the other crabs, leaving them all stuck. This is described as "If I can't have what I want, then neither can you" kind of thinking, and is more prevalent in reality.
The lost of innocence replaced by compassion is only a result of this realization — looking beyond oneself into the efforts of another struggling person to live day by day. Jun 10, Tj Barnaba rated it it was amazing.
Perhaps this book isn't meant to be taken at surface view. The writer intends to pass something deeper. Lisabeth the so most appearing character in the book destroys an old woman's only beauty amidst her other olden things.
The Marigolds are destroyed by Lisabeth at night and therebefore she'd also made incitations for her friends to throw pebbles at the marigolds and make notsogood chants at the old lady mrs lottie. The book is rather deep in context taking how t Perhaps this book isn't meant to be taken at surface view.
The book is rather deep in context taking how troubled Lisabeth is and how the Marigolds represented the only good the old lady had. Lisabeth is seen to be in deep regret over her immature act. Feb 06, Elif rated it it was amazing. Very sweet and short. Mar 03, Jesse Field rated it liked it. Miss Lottie's marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard.
Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passion and sun-golden. The old black witch-woman worked on them all summer, every summer, down on her creaky knees, weeding and cultivating and arranging, while the house c Miss Lottie's marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. The old black witch-woman worked on them all summer, every summer, down on her creaky knees, weeding and cultivating and arranging, while the house crumbled and John Burke rocked.
For some perverse reason, we children hated those marigolds. They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they did not make sense. There was something in the vigor with which the old woman destroyed the weeds that intimidated us.
It should have been a comical sight -- the old woman with the man's hat on her cropped white head, leaning over the bright mounds, her big backside in the air -- but it wasn't comical, it was something we could not name. We had to annoy her by whizzing a pebble into her flowers or by yelling a dirty word, then dancing away from her rage, reveling in our youth and mocking her age. Actually, it was the flowers we wanted to destroy, but nobody had the nerve to try it, not even Joey, who was usually fool enough to try anything.
So goes the tipping point of this terrible little tale, explaining and not explaining the big question: why does Lizbeth have to destroy the marigolds? What are they to the children, what are they to her? The urge to destroy is somehow very familiar to us, and we may even guess that this urge is connected to stress, desperation, hopelessness, is even the natural result of these, but why exactly does stress make us destructive?
I suppose the chance to discuss such questions is what keeps this short story in high school anthologies down to As I prepare to teach it tomorrow, I have high hopes that it remains an excellent question with which to gather young people together in seminar mode. View 1 comment. Jan 15, Aryana Parmar rated it really liked it.
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