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Marigolds Character Analysis
Every single person in the world whether they were alive 100 years ago or are alive today, have or will go through that stage of growing up and becoming an adult. Lizabeth from the story Marigolds is an example of this. In the story, as a teenager, she goes through three situations that many teens today go through as they slowly mature. These three situations are family matters, seeing people as they really are,and uncontrollable emotional outbursts. Lizabeth goes through these problems as she matures through the story, and so do teens as they mature during their lifetimes.
Many teens today have personal problems and family problems. These family problems take place in almost every household across the world. “Damn Mr.Ellis’s coat! And damn his money! You think i want a white folks leavings? Damn Maybelle - and suddenly he sobbed, loudly and
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Some kids will call elderly people a witch just like Lizabeth and her friends did in Marigolds. When they saw Miss Lotie, Lizabeth called her a witch, although at the end of the story Lizabeth said, “The witch was no longer a witch, but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility.” Lizabeth saw the witch as the person she really was as she matured in the story. Teens learn that in order to truly judge someone, they need to get to know the person before making a final decision about them.
Many people have personal problem that affects their lives. In some situations it’s too much to deal with so they have uncontrollable emotional outbursts. For each person it can happen in different ways. In the story Lizabeth’s emotions explode with tears and rage. “I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly trampling, pulling and destroying the perfect yellow marigolds.” Other teens deal with these outbursts differently, for example some teens will self harm, bully others, or commit

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