Juxtaposition In Marigolds

In the short story Marigolds, Collier uses Imagery, Flashback, and Juxtaposition to create her voice.She writes that “I remember , another incongruency of memory- a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust.”(16), which is an example of juxtaposition because it's comparing both things for a purpose.An example of imagery is “multicolored skein of fourteen-going-on-fifteen as I recall that devastating moment where i was more women than child.”(17) This is representing the narrator feeling, ideas, describing the moment she felt that she was no longer a child.An example of Flashback is “When i think of my hometown of my youth”(16).This is describing an event that occurred in the past.
When the narrator uses Juxtaposition she is describing an arrangement of 2 or more things for a …show more content…
In this story the narrator is telling the readers about how elizabeth is using imagery to explain her feeling,action and ideas.In the article it says that “Multicolored skein of fourteen-going-on-fifteen as i recall that devastating moment that i was suddenly more women than child.”(17)On the other hand she is telling the reader that when she was turning fifteen she felt like she was no longer a child because of all the bad things happening in her life.elizabeth had so much responsibility that she felt like made her more of a woman.
Lastly is a Flashback.Elizabeth flashbacks that she had weren't the happiest, her flashbacks were more of a bad memory of her past.When the narrator says”As i think of those days i feel most poignantly the tag end of summer, the bright dry times when we began to have a sense of shortening days and the imminence of the cold.”(17)For instance this memory is talking about her regrets and sadness she had when the end of summer was coming.She felt the regrets of what she did and the imminence of what was about to come.What was going to happen after the summer