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Analysis Of Revolutionary Petunias
A Win, Lose Fight Figuratively speaking, “an eye for an eye” is not always the best way to handle an intense situation. In “Revolutionary Petunias”, by Alice Walker, the speaker explains just that. The poem tells about a woman named Sammy Lou, who is struck with a tragedy when her husband is murdered and she takes justice into her own hands. In the beginning, Sammy Lou kills her husband’s murderer and is portrayed, amongst her peers, as “the exact creature who / murdered her husband / using a cultivator’s hoe” (lines 3-5). In many situations as this one, what Sammy Lou has done is what most people instinctively would want to do. It’s just that some people act on it (as Sammy Lou did) and some opt not to. Not too long after, “She laugh[s]
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