The Flowers By Alice Walker Analysis

“The Flowers” At some point or another, we all lose our innocence. In the story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, there is an excellent example of this. In the last line of this story, Alice walker states “and the summer was over.” This quote means that the little girl in the story has lost her innocence, or “the summer.” In “The Flowers,” a little girl is walking along in the woods behind her house like she had done many times before, but when she begins to “circle back to the house,” she steps into the head of a dead man. This man is the victim of a violent and tragic death. He has been beaten “he had had large, white teeth, all of them cracked or broken,” and has been hanged “It was the remains of a noose.” The little girl, until this