The Flowers The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. The loss of a young girls’ innocence by being shown the evils of the outside world is portrayed in the story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker. In the last sentence of the short story Walker writes “And the summer was over” which is stating how the awareness of the things outside Myop’s universe have ended her summer, her innocence. Alice Walker illustrates in “The Flowers” how easily “the snakes” can be unveiled to a small child. Myop was a young girl “she was ten,” and knew very little of the world outside of “her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment. In the third paragraph, the mood of the story changes.
