he Flowers,” is a short story written by Alice Walker, the story talks about how a child loses her innocence to a traumatizing event. The main character, of this story is a young girl named” Myop” is enjoying a morning in the summer by picking up ,flowers when she comes upon the decaying body of a man who has been hanged. She is exposed to racial discrimination at an early age ,which is traumatic for a kid her age. The Flowers is a story of how a child loses her purity, and how it can be lost very easily due to the cruel world she lives in.However, it is in many ways a story that changes the aspect of how we view things around us. Alice Walker constructs a complex image of innocence through the symbolic imagery of light versus dark situations
