Coming Of Age In The Flower's

The author presents Sylvia as in touch with nature, as shown. “At last, the evening began to fall, and they drove the cow home together, and Sylvia smiled with pleasure when they came to the place where she heard the whistle and was afraid only the night before” Such description allows the reader to imagine that she lives somewhere rural. People who use words such as abundant, and use bright tones present natural environments, rather than someone who might use words like twilight and use of dark tones.

The coming of age event in The Flower’s was the moment that Myop picked up the flower and saw the noose. The pink flower is a symbol of affection or admiration. Before her Coming Of Age, she is unaware of the harsh and cruel world around her and admires the beauty around her. Even when she sees the flower she is unaware of the noose around it. It is not until she picks it up that she sees it and recognizes and that the man, whose skull she had just crushed was hung. The flowers represented the unknowing beauty that most childhoods possess.

The long-term results of The Flowers would be that she would never be the same. She would never be the same, because of her life changing realization. The
protagonist will never be the same because she, can't go back to that time when she thought the world was innocent. I inferred that it was the end of her childhood because it said she dropped her flowers. The clues I used to fuel my inference was that “My laid down her flowers. And the summer was over.”

In Shooting an Elephant, during the time when the British regime was a forging power, they had taken over most of India.
In this story, the elephant was a symbol of the British empire. Like the empire, the elephant is extremely powerful. When the elephant kills the coolie, he represents the British oppressing the native Indians. Another symbol is the crowd. Orwell knows that if he stands at the elephant and it doesn’t charge, then; the elephant is over its rage. However with the crowd there, if he did not kill it, then it would have made him look stupid; challenging his ego. The gun is also a symbol for the power that the empire had, not just against the Indians, but against its own people. In modern society today, we all do things we don't want to do when under peer
pressure.

Myop’s experience led to her childhood ending. In my opinion, this was the most difficult aftermath. Right at that coming of age moment, she realized that the world was different than she thought, and she was jerked out disillusioned childhood. At the end of the reading, it said “Myop laid down her flowers. And the summer was over.” In the end, she realized that the world was not peaceful, but it was chaotic.