The story marigold follows an experience that the narrator had as a child, that she describes as the moment she grow up (came of age). The main character in text also debates throughout the story weather she is a girl or a women. this plays significance because she talks about it with great symbolism that helps the reader identify with her and the environment she's in. An example of symbolism within the story is when the narrator is talking about how during the setting of the story nobody had an understanding of the world outside of there poor community, and how she felt trapped by this in which she remarked “ zoo-bred flamingos who knows that nature created him to fly” —marigold, paragraph 4. This is a powerful sentence that gives the reader
