“The Flowers” Death, it attacks us more than physically. It’s an overbearing truth within reality that hits us heavy in our feelings. Though the death spoken of now, is one of symbolic representation. In Alice Walker’s, “The Flowers”, she shows this representation of death by saying, “And the summer ended.” Summer symbolically portrays feelings of warmth, happiness, adventure, and mysticism. In our childhoods, seconds feel like hours and hours feel more like seconds. It is a mystical sense of emotion that triggers this euphoric feeling of wonder in us all. Myop is concerned of nothing more than her perspective of the world and the “tat-de-ta-ta-ta”
