The Marigolds: A Short Story

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I was in the kitchen making something for supper for john and me, I heard some voices but I thought oh it’s probably someone just walking by. I always look at my marigolds they remind me of when I was young, wealthy, beautiful. I would protect those marigolds if my life depended on it, I can always think back to when I and my husband were dancing in the ballroom and he saw me by myself then asked if I wanted to dance it was the best day of my life. I was cooking my supper I see someone’s shadow by my bushes I was seen they had an object in their hand. I panic I start screaming at the person who was destroying my marigolds, they ripped them all out of the ground I couldn’t believe what happened with my own eyes. I saw the boy trying to pull

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Summary Of The Short Story Marigolds

In the short story “Marigolds” it talks about how a little yellow flower could mean so much. Background information is that a girl named Lizabeth is growing up in her life who loses interest in some things she used to do when she was younger. She also had learned why Miss. Lottie had planted those marigolds in the first place. Because of Lizabeth who is growing up she sometimes find life is never going to be perfect. First Lizabeth hearing her father crying for the first time. “And suddenly he sobbed…

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Marigolds Short Story Theme

don’t listen or understand their parents? I think every child has once in their life, not understand their parents. In the theme in the story “Marigolds” it is more about poverty, maturity, and the relationship between innocence. Not every young child understands the point of view of their parents. In the story of “Marigolds” it involves poverty. In the story they said that “We children, of course, were only vaguely aware of the extent of our poverty.” “Having no radios, few newspapers, and no magazines…

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Difference In The Short Story 'Marigolds' By Eugenia Collier

In the short story marigolds by Eugenia Collier she uses tone and and diction to make a visual of a young girl living in a run down shanty town in a corrupted society and ones that tried to bring beauty to the barren land and in depressing times was thought as a witch or crazy woman. On page 18 paragraph 22 “marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the res” this shows that the kids didn't know the feelings that the accumulated…

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Comparing Short Stories 'Marigolds And Thank You Ma' Am

"Marigolds" and "Thank You Ma’am" are two short stories, written both by African American authors in the 20th century. They were both written around the same time, Marigolds in 1969 by Eugenia Collier and "Thank You Ma’am" in 1959 by Langston Hughes. The main theme of both stories is integrity, we see how the main characters change from not knowing integrity to having integrity. Some things like the setting of the story, symbols, and the empathy can be used to compare these two short stories.…

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Just Walk On By Brent Staples Summary

“Maturity is not measured by age. It’s an attitude built by experience” (Unknown). The story Just Walk on By and Marigold all explain how life struggles force people to mature because it changes someone's perspective on things. Sometimes people make a decision that can affect the people around them in a vigorous way or careless way. One example is the story Just Walk On By, by Brent Staples. Staples is an author and editorial writer for the New York Times who was born in 1951 in Chester Pennsylvania…

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Symbolism In Marigolds

moment when childhood faded and womanhood began” (Collier 148). Lizabeth’s innocence vanished the second she looked at Miss Lottie’s sad, old, worn-down face. In Collier’s fictional short story, Marigolds, Collier explains how symbolism and conflict convey the theme: Growing up is realizing your mistake. Marigolds. Marigolds take a lifetime to grow and so, they symbolize Lizabeth’s growth from a child to a young woman. “Warm and passionate and sun-golden… we could not understand;” (Collier 144). The…

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Examples Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird

empathy as "walking in someone else shoes." Empathy is an important theme used in the short story "Marigolds", and the two excerpts from the novels "The Jungle", and "To Kill a Mockingbird" In the excerpt from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" empathy is used when Atticus explains to his daughter that she can not understand someone until you consider things from his point of view. In the short story “Marigolds”, empathy is used when the main charter Lizabeth, feels guilty for destroying her neighbor's…

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Literary Response: Marigolds By Eugenia W. Collier

First Name Last Name Literary Response In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier, Lizabeth struggles internally and externally with the transition from childhood to adulthood. She also ends up destroying the only hope of a poor old woman trying to create beauty in poverty. In this story, the author uses conflict, symbolism, and perspective to prove the theme of hope is just as important as the the theme of coming of age. Initially, Lizabeth is shown to have many internal and external…

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The Sources Essay

Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier My purpose of writing the descriptions of Marigolds is to explain the creations of Marigolds, major background, why is Marigolds relevant to real life occurrences, how did Lizabeth maintain to accomplish her goals, and what was the dramatic conflict that happened at the end to give a jaw dropping resolution to fit spice into the conclusion. Marigolds are a short story seminar classic written by Eugenia W. Collier in the year of 1969. Introducing a seminar of…

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'Marigolds And Tamara's Opus'

life, you will do things that you will regret. However, you need to push past the regret. You need to learn from your mistakes and learn to make the right choices. The narrators of the genres “Marigolds” and “Tamara’s Opus” reinforced this concept. Eugenia Collier, the author of the short story “Marigolds,” describes how Lizabeth is going through a challenging time; she holds onto her feelings instead of acting on them, which makes her make a decision that she regrets instantly. Similarly, Joshua…

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