Summary Of The Flowers By Alice Walker

In the short story, The Flowers by Alice Walker, it becomes apparent that the main character Myop will struggle with several burdens because of her racial and social background. For example, Alice walker, asserts that “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”,(333). This scene shown in the very beginning shows how innocent she is. Because of this with the later dark turn in the story, it really emphasizes how much of her innocence she had lost as a whole. This remark also captures her skin color, and at the time being of a dark background would be harder for dark colored people like Myop. When she had come across the lynched man and with only