Theme Of Growing Up In Marigolds

Part of growing up is knowing things won’t always be the same. Part of growing up is knowing things won’t always be the same. Part of growing up is knowing your perspective on some things won’t always be the same,knowing it will change. Everyone has a coming of age moment at some point in their life. The central characters in both “Marigolds” by Gurgenia Collier and “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Hecker demonstrate that a person’s perspective on things change as they grow.

First of all the theme of a person’s perspective changes as they grow is demonstrated in “Marigolds” by Gurgenia Collier. Teenage Lizbeth’s perspective completely alters when she hears her father crying, “loudly and painfully… helplessly and hopelessly in the dark night.”