marigolds
Tuyen Pham
Engl 121
K.Kennedy
Week 1
Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier (1969)
What change does the main character experience from the beginning of the story to the end?
From the beginning to the end of the story, the main character experiences her time when she was changing from child to woman.
Growing up during the Great Depression in impoverished rural of Maryland, her family had been living through poverty and financial struggles. She was fourteen going on fifteen by that time so she understood everything her family or her neighbors had been through. But She and her brother were so young and innocence that they liked running around and teasing Miss Lottie with her marigolds mounds that she planted every summer.
And the rising action that changed her childhood was the midnight when she first heard a man that was her father cry in helplessness and hopeless because he couldn’t get a job and take good care of the family. She felt his despair and her emotion of crying in fear, and degradation that led her run and ruin all the marigolds of Miss Lottie. When she looked up to “stared at her”, “ that was the moment when childhood faded and womanhood began”. She felt guilty, “awkward and ashamed” that moment marked the end of innocence.
Why did Miss Lottie plant the marigolds?
She planted the marigolds because that was her happiness. They were very bright and colorful compared to her “sorry gray house”. Those passionate yellow mounds made her house really stand out. She took care of them “all summer, every summer” as her one joy and hope.
Without reviewing the story, what descriptive details do you remember?
The detail that stands out in my mind is the scene Elizabeth’s father “cried out loud” in the middle of the night because he felt impotent for not do anything for his wife and his kids in twenty-two years. A man is always the leader of the house. Taking a good care of his family is the most important role they should. He was a strong man “ who could
Engl 121
K.Kennedy
Week 1
Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier (1969)
What change does the main character experience from the beginning of the story to the end?
From the beginning to the end of the story, the main character experiences her time when she was changing from child to woman.
Growing up during the Great Depression in impoverished rural of Maryland, her family had been living through poverty and financial struggles. She was fourteen going on fifteen by that time so she understood everything her family or her neighbors had been through. But She and her brother were so young and innocence that they liked running around and teasing Miss Lottie with her marigolds mounds that she planted every summer.
And the rising action that changed her childhood was the midnight when she first heard a man that was her father cry in helplessness and hopeless because he couldn’t get a job and take good care of the family. She felt his despair and her emotion of crying in fear, and degradation that led her run and ruin all the marigolds of Miss Lottie. When she looked up to “stared at her”, “ that was the moment when childhood faded and womanhood began”. She felt guilty, “awkward and ashamed” that moment marked the end of innocence.
Why did Miss Lottie plant the marigolds?
She planted the marigolds because that was her happiness. They were very bright and colorful compared to her “sorry gray house”. Those passionate yellow mounds made her house really stand out. She took care of them “all summer, every summer” as her one joy and hope.
Without reviewing the story, what descriptive details do you remember?
The detail that stands out in my mind is the scene Elizabeth’s father “cried out loud” in the middle of the night because he felt impotent for not do anything for his wife and his kids in twenty-two years. A man is always the leader of the house. Taking a good care of his family is the most important role they should. He was a strong man “ who could