Analysis of ’The Flowers’ by Alice Walker How do we lose our childish way of seeing the world? How can we suddenly they see the world as it is‚ in all its evil? ‘The Flowers’ is a story about a young girl who goes through an experience that forces her into changing her way of seeing life‚ and it presents themes like growing up and loss of innocence. The main character of the story is Myop‚ a 10-year-old girl without any major worries in life. The only thing we know about her physical appearance
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Sharon Ji Professor Cato English 1102 29 April 2013 Myop in “The Flowers” by Alice Walker Short stories are known to have two very distinct characteristics which are interrelated: they are compressed and concentrated. By compressed‚ they mean that the writer squeezes as much information as possible so that it is still considered a short story. When it comes to the story being concentrated‚ they typically mean taking out anything that is not essential to the conflict and how the protagonist
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influenced by their experiences. Alice Walker is no different in regards to her perception of beauty. “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is The Self” is an autobiographical story written by Walker that recounts and compares her life before and after her "accident". When she was eight years old‚ she was shot in the eye by one of her brothers while playing cowboys and Indians with a BB gun. The incident leaves a once cute and outgoing girl with a destroyed sense of self beauty. Walker traces her experiences throughout
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Alienation in Roselily In Alice Walker’s short story Roselily‚ the reader is presented with a theme of alienation. Readers can come to this conclusion by simply reading the story and being presented with an overwhelming abundance of evidence supporting the nature of this theme. This evidence includes the fact that Roselily is an African American‚ unwed female with four children to different fathers‚ shunning her from society. Also‚ more confirmation comes in the form of Roselily having no connection
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“The Flowers” When one learns that innocence is just one part of life‚ their life just begins. In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker one ten year old girl is met face to face with innocence’s biggest rival‚ evil. A summer is full with laughter and joy just like Myops until she encounters evil for the first time which ends her summer. Myop‚ a ten year old girl‚ is born in a sharecroppers family‚ in reference‚ show the setting as post civil war. At this age she is as innocent as
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The short story‚ “Flowers” by Alice Walker showed a more suitable examples of description writing between the two stories “The Dog Could Teach Me” and “The Sniper”. The reason for this story containing strong examples of description is because throughout the entire story the reader knew every move the character was making or every setting that was changing. In the text of‚ “Flowers” it states “Frayed‚ rotted bleached‚ and frazzled-- barely there- but spinning restlessly in the breeze”. It’s clear
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comes down to their work. Authors usually come from certain background that is incorporated into their work. Authors Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros are unique female authors that are known for their extraordinary work. Sandra Cisneros and Alice Walker both use visual image to create an informal modern style‚ yet they differ in their syntax and tone. In The Flowers‚ author Alice Walker use of informal style creates a sense of innocence and change. Throughout the first half of the story she describes
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Alice Walker uses her own mother as a method to explain the creativity that has lived on in black women from the post-Reconstruction era on. She explains her mother telling stories which came naturally like breathing and her mother’s magnificent garden. Her mother tended the garden while still continuing her work in the field throughout the day and caring for her children. She was creating beauty where there was never any room for any. Walker noticed that only when her
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Alice Walker also uses her own mother as a method to explain the way they are and the creativity they have lived in . She explains‚ "Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and respect for strength-in search of my mother’s garden‚ I found my own."(Walker 675) This quote shows how Walker was able to find her own creativity by seeing her mother’s creativity in the creation of her gardens. Walker’s mother grew beautiful gardens at every single house they had ever lived in‚it was so original in its
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Alex Teague Language Arts outline 5-2-07 3rd period Alice Walker Outline I. Alice Walker was not only one of the most superior African American writers over the century‚ but also an activist in the civil rights movement‚ growing up in the time period where African Americans were just beginning to experience equality. In addition to her work about race‚ she wrote about the poor treatment that black women faced‚ and was often criticized for her portrayal of the black man being the
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