Lizabeth’s innocence is yet to be broken; until a certain event takes place one night at her home, when she overhears her parents talking. “—and suddenly he sobbed, loudly and painfully, and cried helplessly and hopelessly in the dark night. I did not know men ever cried…. The world had lost its boundary lines… Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion. Where did I fit into this crazy picture? I do not now remember my thoughts, only a feeling of great bewilderment and fear” (Collier 147). It’s in this moment that everything seemed to flip upside-down for Lizabeth. Her father, of whom she’s only known to be a bright, happy man, is now sobbing. Everything is wrong to Lizabeth and this is the big turning point at which her innocence breaks. Her eyes are being opened and she’s starting to realize that not everything is as it seems. It isn’t until she goes back to Miss.Lottie’s house, after hearing the sobs of her father, that she truly changes as a person and makes the transition from a young girl to a woman. “I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms….