Coming Of Age Exposed In The Short Story Marigolds

How would coming of age connect with a race? How I perceive coming of age as a race is you cannot go straight into a race you must train day to day repeatedly, getting better every time, and towards the end you have all of this experience built up passing on to the next future generation. Loved ones or the ones who are close in this situation will be your coach, they are standing by your side in this time of training telling you the correct way of doing things and pushing you to do your best at all times. Attaining the age of realization that you have changed is completely different for everyone out there. After the race you will either be completely invigorated or thinking I could've done better, maybe It wasn't the time of realization. It's …show more content…
It is a time of realization that it is time to change your ways as a child and become something much more. In the short story ‘Marigolds’, Lizabeth truly realizes what she does is morally wrong. She found out at the moment she was destroying the well-kept beauty of Miss Lottie's flowers. As she was getting the vision of destruction, a small thought brushed her mind, “Perhaps we had some dim notion of what we were, and how little chance we had of being anything else. Otherwise, why would we have been so preoccupied with destruction?” (Anderson)./ She thought here if anyone had the idea that this might not be the brightest idea they have thought of. In this stage of time, she is still going through experiences that will get her closer and closer to the time she sees the way in the end. When she has finished all of that training and gaining many new traits that will change her attitude into a respectable woman, instead of a little mindless child. This is a good thing because she is changing from a degenerate fourteen year old who doesn't give thought into things before they are done no matter if they are good or bad, to a more mature person who gives consideration and gives thought into things before doing them. “Then I lost my head entirely, mad with the power of inciting such rage, and ran out of the bushes in the storm of pebbles” (Anderson)./ She just had the thought of how this …show more content…
But it is one process we all must go through to continue our everyday lives to be accepted by society. “In Spring is where we start our life arising new to the breaking dawn in mother's arms were free from strife a bliss-filled time hearing angel's song there's much to learn in this infant state to walk, to talk, to sing about with help from others” (McDonald)/. Here is the beginning of the life span where she will learn the most and form herself as a person to whom you will actually become. Some of the traits they see is at the beginning of a new a new life you are learning much in this infant state. Never seeing what she will foresee far off in this future of snows. With a thought of being young for as long as you can think of. Also learning the basic manners of a child and by seeing what she is possibly going to do for the rest of life. Some of the traits they see is at the beginning of a new a new life you are learning much in this infant state. Never seeing what you will foresee far off in this future of snows. With a thought of being young for as long as you can think of. Also learning the basic manners of a child and by seeing what we are possibly going to do for the rest of life. The benefits of this are the experience that are gained over the time of being a young child and having the protection from your mother and always having her there for