The Flowers By Alice Walker

Question 1 The Flowers Throughout the short story written by Alice Walker, we can see imagery, setting, and style. She writes the short story in a well done order by letting us know how good the day is going to giving us the worst ending ever to destroy a innocent black girl’s childhood. In this case the little girl’s name is Myop. Alice Walker gave us a joyful tone and setting as a suspicion of what was going to happen next. To begin with, the author gives us an imagery of of the best day ever vs the worst day ever or maybe even light vs darkness. Myop starts of enjoying her day by the beautiful natural surroundings, and she goes of wondering around in the sharecropper’s land searching for flowers. As you can see, they live in a sharecropper’s land, and as said in the second paragraph, “her dark brown hand”, this family is a dark skinned family working in the fields. At last the ending ends up ruining Myop’s childhood.
Toward the end of the poem, the setting switches and becomes a more darker setting. This is after the shift in tone. Myop is startled when she steps on the skull of an old man's skeleton. She notices it's a skeleton when she starts looking at her surroundings. She notices “the rotted remains of a noose”. As well as a rope hanging from the limb of a tree. As a reader i can infer that this man was lynched years ago due to the clues the author gave us. In addition to this, Myop before proceeding to this site, she probably did not see the skeleton lying there due to the fact that she might have myopia because of her name