Alice Walker Epiphany

The Epiphany a Harsh Society Brings A rose is pure, innocent, sweet, and full of life until something or someone corrupts its natural beauty. In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, her main character Myop has a mind-changing experience in the woods behind her home. After a meeting with a dead man, Myop is no longer oblivious to her surroundings and realizes that there is true evil in the world she lives in. The sweet little song is no longer her soul focus, the author makes Myop grow up mentally to deal with such an undeserving tragedy. “And the summer was over” reinforces the theme of the epiphany that occurs once the realization that the world is wicked finally kicks in, making even this ten-year-old girl no longer innocent. …show more content…
Myop does not see the chaotic and cruelness of the world she was born into until “she stepped smack into his eyes.” (L18) before this encounter, Myop was pure in which the author represents with flowers. To show that when there is good, bad is not far the author represents evil with the snakes Myop vaguely keeps an eye out for. Myop was protected from the wickedness in the shelter of the sharecropper’s cabin, but once she turns her back to the rusty boards, dark times await to smother her. She was brave and unafraid until she saw his naked grin staring up at her. The man’s head lay beside him, broken, abused, and left to decay away alongside his tall body. This shows the lack of respect they pay him once he dies. Myop’s theoretical vision is widen and her song comes to a sudden