Loss Of Innocence In The Flowers By Alice Walker

In Alice Walker's short story, “The Flowers” (1973) is about a young black girl named Myop who have lost her childhood innocence. No matter how hard people try to hard to hide the truth from other, they will come to realize that people are not able to keep their innocence. Myop is a young girl who enjoys picking flowers in the summer morning, the narrator portrays Myop to be a ten-years old innocent child who have yet to see the truth to the world around her. When she have stumble in the woods that she have explored many times before, she would be “vaguely keeping an eye out for snakes” because that is the only danger she knows that is there in the woods. After being in the woods for a long time she start to feel strange from being in the woods that she was familiar of. The narrator describe that Myop was being closed in because of “air was damp, the silence close and deep. Myop try to go back to the joyful moment of the morning, but a jarring moment of seeing that “her heel became lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose” means that she had step in a skull head. But was “unafraid, to free herself”, like it was not her first time coming into contact with a dead body. At that moment was when Myop has lost her innocents from discovering a violent death of racism that was hidden …show more content…
Walker had wrote the experience that that have come to understand about finding a dead body of a lynched man, “she pushed back the leaves and layers of earth and debris.” The curiosity had taken over Myop mind to look to see what was underneath the pile of leaves and debris. The narrator had described that “he’d had large white teeth” would be considered pure, but the narrator describe it as something that is dirty and rotting. Myop realizing about the truth of the world, she was forced to have her summer come to an

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Loss Of Innocence In The Flowers By Alice Walker