The Flower By Seamus Heaney Analysis

In the literature we have read this week each story underlines and capitalizes on the signs of injustice and inequality. The four focal points shown in these stories are country needs more important than the people’s needs, racial inequality, economic class level and loss of innocence in humanity.
The first point where injustice is highlighted is in the story “Punishment” by Seamus Heaney. The toll of the story is about the two selfish nationalist fighting for their own reason and the people from each country doing nothing for their needs besides watching this Irish innocent woman getting caught between these two and is brutally murdered because she was not conspiring with her culture. The injustice is the people not doing anything for their needs and just watching the woman being killed because she could not have her own needs if they did …show more content…
The Flower is a story about a young African American girl named Myop who finds a dead African American man lying under a bush. This story focus on the loss of the girls’ innocence in humanity because discovering the dead man was victim of a lynching or murder made her understand the world is not how she perceives it to be. The injustice in this story is that Myop did not believe her world could be filled with horrible things such as what she just saw but her discovering the dead man made her not be able to believe the world was a pure and peaceful place she perceived it to be. Examples of this in story is when the narrator says “Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of the morning." this suggesting when Myop gets further from home the darker the world becomes to her so by turning back she tries to prevent her losing her innocence. The last example of her losing her purity is when the narrator says” Myop laid down her flowers. And the summer was over” this insinuating she lost her innocence and can never see the world the