the youth of this generation will never truly understand tragedies that have occured in 1920’s with lack of equal rights for African Americans. Lynching and other horrific acts such as this were a unfortunate act that was acceptable by white southerners since equal rights still haven’t become a topic of controversy. Today in 2017 experience only a small serge what happen the this dark age of american history.
Innocence is something we know growing into adulthood will be lost sooner or later in life. This event comes with growing up and realizing what the world truly is. Walker’s “The Flowers” shows us an event in which a black ten year old girl’ loses her, innocence; after seeing a shocking sight towards the end of the story. The story is set during a time period that is not safe for African Americans. …show more content…
In “The Flowers”, Walker uses literary pieces of symbolism, and setting to help to show a reasonably surprising unveiling of the horrid end, as well as to convey the theme of how innocence vanishes as a result of facing that harsh reality of her world.
Walker uses the positive image of “The Flowers” at the beginning of the short story to set this naive and sweet plot in which a gruesome plot twist of the lynched man comes out of nowhere to the unexpecting audience, a pretty shocking event that robs Myop of her innocence for say. The reason this is so important to point out is that the first half of the text focuses on Myop’s childlike innocence with sweet imagery of Myop feeling “good and warm in the sun” (Walker, pg.76) to hit specifically on Myop’s childlike tendencies. In the same case, sweet and gentle visuals continue to play in the first few paragraphs of a happy lifestyle where “each day a golden surprise” (Walker, pg. 76)and a ten year old girl like Myop could “skip lightly from her house to
Innocence is something we know growing into adulthood will be lost sooner or later in life. This event comes with growing up and realizing what the world truly is. Walker’s “The Flowers” shows us an event in which a black ten year old girl’ loses her, innocence; after seeing a shocking sight towards the end of the story. The story is set during a time period that is not safe for African Americans. …show more content…
In “The Flowers”, Walker uses literary pieces of symbolism, and setting to help to show a reasonably surprising unveiling of the horrid end, as well as to convey the theme of how innocence vanishes as a result of facing that harsh reality of her world.
Walker uses the positive image of “The Flowers” at the beginning of the short story to set this naive and sweet plot in which a gruesome plot twist of the lynched man comes out of nowhere to the unexpecting audience, a pretty shocking event that robs Myop of her innocence for say. The reason this is so important to point out is that the first half of the text focuses on Myop’s childlike innocence with sweet imagery of Myop feeling “good and warm in the sun” (Walker, pg.76) to hit specifically on Myop’s childlike tendencies. In the same case, sweet and gentle visuals continue to play in the first few paragraphs of a happy lifestyle where “each day a golden surprise” (Walker, pg. 76)and a ten year old girl like Myop could “skip lightly from her house to