Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks

Nurturing plants can teach us how to care for other living things. In general people garden because it helps to relax, to gain social skills, and make some friends. In Paul Fleischman’s novel Seedfolks, two main characters who are dynamic are Sae Young and Maricela. Fleischman’s vacant lot garden changes the lives of SaeYoung and Maricela, because the garden helps them [Sae Young and Maricela] gain social skills and helps them [SaeYoung and Maricela] express their voices. To commence, Fleischman’s vacant lot garden changes the lives of Sae Young, because the garden helps them gain social skills and helps them express their voices. One character that is dynamic in the story is Sae Young because she learns how to overcome her fears and
Maricela starts off her story with a racism stereotype. Maricela is a Mexican teenage girl and she is pregnant at age sixteen. The Cubans and Puerto Ricans people hate Mexicans because they think Mexican people came to America illegally. Maricela dropout from school, and she does not want her baby. However, Maricela seem to grown up in a family who has the supports from the parents. Maricela’s parents love the little baby. Maricela got into program for pregnant teens, and it helps her to get her G.E.D. at home. The woman in the program makes them plants radishes in the community garden to practice their nurturing skill. In the community garden on Gibb street Maricela finds encouragement, and she also meet Leona, Leona is a black girl who plants goldenrod to honor or commemorate her grandmother. Maricela feels open to Leona, “She [Leona] called ’em goldenrod and she said if I made ’em into tea it would help me with the delivery. She [Leona] knew I [Maricela] did not want to be pregnant. I [Maricela] could talk to her about it” (Fleischman 71) because Maricela feels that Leona cares and understands how she felt. At the end of her story, nature has lead Maricela to think of something that she had never ever thought about it before, “I [Maricela] was in that weird daze. And for just that minute I [Maricela] stopped