Development In 'Fifteen And The Flowers'

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No matter where a person grows up, or what they go through, that person will still grow and develop. One way people do this is by experiencing something that has affected their view on life. For example, in the poem “Fifteen” by William Stafford, and the story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, both characters grow and develop by learning the deeper meaning of something. After they learn the deeper meaning, they change their state of mind, which can be shown by their actions after they realized what really happened. In, “The Flowers,” the main character, Myop, was enjoying her day and was taking a walk in the woods. As she was walking, she was picking flowers, until she found a lynched body. This is what initially caused her transformation of how she grew and developed. At first, she was very unaware and unfazed as she went …show more content…
He admires the motorcycle’s beauty and wants to take it for himself, and ride it further. But he then finds the owner. When he finds the owner, he experiences his transition that made him grow and develop. To prove this, it was stated that, “thinking, back farther in the grass I found the owner, just coming to, where he had just flipped over the rail” (Stafford 1). The word thinking was a key moment that shows his growth and development. Now that he actually stops to think, he realized what had actually happened, and stops fantasizing over the motorcycle. This change in thought of the motorcycle shows his growth and development. In the same way, when the main characters sees the features of the man who was just on the motorcycle, he grows and develops even more. In earlier stanzas, the statement “I was fifteen” (Stafford 1), was connected to the stanzas. When he says “I stood there, fifteen” (Stafford 1) his view changes. He realized what actually happened to the man and the dangers of the motorcycle, and grew from it by realizing that there is more to the
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