Myop The Flowers
When one thinks of the term flower, beautiful, elegant, and colorful have the ability to describe a flower in a few words. Soon after a flower is picked it begins to welts. Similar in the order to Myop’s childhood, once a simple, lighted heart child, her innocence welted away during the summer when she was ten years of age. Set on a sharecrop farm, we are given the context that this is during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, on the occasion of slavery was abolished. The story poses interesting insight of childhood innocence, and the use of literary techniques. Some being as clever as Myop’s name or the title of the short story, others being straightforward as “and summer was over.”
To begin, The Flowers is about Myop, the protagonist, a simple, …show more content…
It seems fitting to giving her the name Myop. At first glance it seems she cannot see past her happy go lucky childhood, but Alice Walker makes it clear that she is aware of her surroundings. For the purpose of an example, the last line in the third paragraph- “Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away downstream.” Knowing that the poem sets during one of the most racial times in America, white and black can’t just be descriptive colors. White bubbles repositioning the white “substantial, bubble” man disrupting the “malnutrition, thin” black skin in the soil. This can be related to the beatings slaves took in the fields. When the water raises and the white bubbles leave, meaning after the slavery abolished laws were set in place, many newly-freed slaves lives were still left in shambles after the white man left. “And he summer was over.” Probably being the most forward example in the short story, summer is know to represent a happy and youthful time. When Alice Walker states summer is over she means Myop childhood and innocence is over. Another example is on the occasion of Myop founding the dead body, she did not run away from the body, but rather she explored the site. It was as if she knew of death and accept it as it was. So rather than being completely innocent, maybe
To begin, The Flowers is about Myop, the protagonist, a simple, …show more content…
It seems fitting to giving her the name Myop. At first glance it seems she cannot see past her happy go lucky childhood, but Alice Walker makes it clear that she is aware of her surroundings. For the purpose of an example, the last line in the third paragraph- “Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose and slid away downstream.” Knowing that the poem sets during one of the most racial times in America, white and black can’t just be descriptive colors. White bubbles repositioning the white “substantial, bubble” man disrupting the “malnutrition, thin” black skin in the soil. This can be related to the beatings slaves took in the fields. When the water raises and the white bubbles leave, meaning after the slavery abolished laws were set in place, many newly-freed slaves lives were still left in shambles after the white man left. “And he summer was over.” Probably being the most forward example in the short story, summer is know to represent a happy and youthful time. When Alice Walker states summer is over she means Myop childhood and innocence is over. Another example is on the occasion of Myop founding the dead body, she did not run away from the body, but rather she explored the site. It was as if she knew of death and accept it as it was. So rather than being completely innocent, maybe