In the novel The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama the characters’ Matsu’s and Sachi’s gardens portray beauty as not only on the surface and below the surface but also through emotions. When Stephen saw Sachi’s garden and how different it was compared to Matsu’s he felt different emotions, “Her garden was a mixture of beauty and sadness, the rocks and stones an illusion of movement”(November 19, 1937). Stephen sees Sachi’s garden and realizes that it’s different from Matsu’s because it is just rocks and stones but he finds beauty in the rocks and stones. Her garden shows what she’s been through; her leprosy connected to the sadness that it makes and the beauty connects to how Stephen sees Sachi now even though she has leprosy.…
For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that one’s life is barren as the dusty yards of one's town. And I too have planted marigolds” (Collier 116) What the author means in these few sentences is that when Lizabeth looks back on her childhood, she remembers the love of marigolds with pain because that is all she had growing up. The last sentence means that she still is fond of marigolds and holds on to those memories. This piece of evidence supports the theme because she developed this love for planting marigolds when she was a child and had…
The combination of diction and imagery used in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier weave a mood of downtrodden hopelessness. Throughout both passages, the authors describe a setting of desolate towns during difficult times, with townsfolk who have forgotten optimism. Such is utilized in To Kill a Mockingbird, as Maycomb is “a tired old town” where “grass gr[ows] on the sidewalks, [and] the courthouse sag[s]”; reading the description evokes an image of a town on the brink of bankruptcy, conveying the despair the inhabitants must feel (Lee). As the diction in the passage is usually equated with the elderly, Lee adds to the picture of a town on its last legs. In contrast, “Marigolds” focuses on the “arid, sterile…
In the short story Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, the narrator, Lizabeth, has chosen to retell a story as an adult reflecting on a significant incident from her childhood. Her voice is that of confused and trying to find her place in life as a young woman. After she overheard her parents conversation, she says, “I had never seen a man cry before” (paragraph 41). This explains how the times are rough as if “depression […] griped the nation” (paragraph 3) and this cannot be easy in addition to her growing up and trying to find her place in the world as a young woman. She knows her mother is the only one providing the income for her family and she knows her father wants so badly to contribute. She witnessed first-hand what her father is going…
Joan Didion illustrates "it is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about" (Didion, Joan). The purpose of her notebook is to preserve her memories. A similar connection related to memories comes from Division Street: America by Studs Terkel. He proposed the idea that his memories of urban life in and around Chicago result in thoughts concerning the past, present, and future. Similar to Didion, Terkels purpose behind Division Street: America was to preserve and interpret historical information based on personal experiences. Another reading with related themes is Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan. This illustrated how complicated human desires connect us to plants, resulting in evolution to depend on our will and intention to work as an unconscious process (Pollan, Michael). Human desires are caused by unconscious processes. These processes are related to the preservation of "keeping in touch" with various versions of the self, memories, and curiosity.…
5b) Juan told Homer about Gus Ritter and his story of the nuns taking the place because his sister was part of the same nun group, this motivates Homer to build the chapel.…
Some people cry, some get angry , I plant marigolds. John Burke don't understand why, he says the house isn't to nice looking, but I don't see the house. I see those beautiful marigolds that I put all my hard work into. I see something that finally shows the beauty out of all this filth and depression. Those children don't understand.…
“Marigolds” written by Eugenia Collier is a story about a girl who realizes the end of her innocent childhood after a childish action. In The Scream by Edvard Munch, we see a man who seems scared and confused, the world around him seems undefined and confusing as well. In Kiseg’s painting Scared Girl, we see that she looks trapped and scared. All 3 of these pieces there is a common element: scared and confused. In “Marigolds”, the narrator, Lizabeth, is scared on page 319 where she says, “The fear unleashed by my father’s tears.” This shows that she was feeling fear from how upset her father was. Also, in The Scream, we see the fear in the face of the man in the painting, he’s screaming from the terror of something. There are similar themes…
Azaleas are known for being beautiful and opening their blossoms all at once. The azaleas represent femininity or softness. Miss Maudie represents strength and integrity. When her house got burned down she just started working on her garden again as if nothing had even happened. “Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls, but after her five o’clock shower she would appear on the porch and reign over the street and magisterial beauty.” pg. 56 Miss Maudie…
In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee the different flowers have different meanings. The flowers were given to certain people on purpose. Miss Maudie Atkinson had her azaleas, Mayella Ewell had geraniums, and Ms. Henry Lafayette Dubose had camellias. Their flowers described them. These flowers Lee thought were perfect for the characters she matched them with. Ms. Dubose had a long life, Mayella was gentle, and miss Maudie took care of herself and her…
Marigold is written by Dr. J. Raymond Kessler, Jr. This article is to find readers about how to grow marigold flowers and has scientific information about the flower. In addition, it also talks about the flower’s scientific name and what types of types of temperature to keep it in. There’s two different types two of marigold flowers; African and French marigold (Kessler, Jr.). Both types of marigold flowers have two different scientific names; “tagetes patula (French form) and taetes erecta (African form).”…
Sherman Alexie story “The Joy of Reading and Writing,” lets us know about his educational journey, the journey in which he figured out how to read. He does not recall any of how he learned how to read, but knows that he was three years of age. His father had a passion for reading, and would buy cheap books from pawnshops, the Salvation Army, and other cheap stores. It rubbed off on Alexie, who would start “reading” the books that his father claimed. In spite the fact that he experiences, childhood with a Spokane Indian reservation and is compelled to ignore school and learning, regardless he endeavors to succeed, to save his own life.…
Margaret Atwood uses flowers as a symbol of fertility, representing the female body as a flower. Atwood gives special attention to the flowers as objects that can bloom, at a time where only a few women can. After the scene of the Ceremony Offred wants to take something from the house as a “souvenir”, she wants “Something that will not be missed”(98). She finds “ In the wood at midnight, a magic flower. A withered daffodil, not one from the dried arrangement”(98). “[Offred] finds the daffodils, crisp at the edges where they’ve dried, limp towards the stems” (98). This…
Fragile beauty the flowers resembles Ophelia’s own fragile beauty ≡ her nascent sexuality and doomed innocence.…
In the poem, the poet used symbolism to describe his childhood. The Garden of Love was…