Flowers By Alice Walker

“Flowers”, a subtle story that begins with the presence of a lighthearted little girl named Myop, however, it all takes a twisted turn as a desolate event creeps up upon her life. During the 1970s, many black Americans have been viewed as outsiders who are different from everyone else. Unfortunately, this is known as discrimination. Black Americans had to go through this tough time for 14 years straight dealing with the pain and suffering of feeling excluded. Alice Walker has experienced this civil rights movement when she was around 20 years old, so this short story was able to help her explain how life was like during those times. The mood at the beginning of the story describes a light, innocent little girl who knows nothing about the world around her as it says in the story “It seemed to Myop as she
She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment.” However, her innocents weaken once she discovers the tragedy placed in front of her. Once Myop stumbles in front of the body her innocence disappears she now knows what the world beyond her has to offer. She is no longer that innocent girl who we all know. In Addition to this, the location of the story is very broad, giving us the impression that she lives in a remote area . Given the word sharecropper's cabin we can identify that she lives in the woods or on a farm, far away from city life. “She had explored the woods behind the house many times.” Myop is a very myopic girl who only understands a little bit of the world and has not yet been exposed to the real-life world in front of her. Secondly, the quote in the story, “She found, in addition to various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush full of the brown, fragrant buds.” Gives us the impression that she lives on a farm, more so of a sharecropper’s