In the story “The Flowers” Alice Walker wrote a delightful story about a little girl skipping happily along a sharecropper field. However, that’s not this story ends. The little girl’s summer ends abruptly after the realization of something horrific, and the understanding that her summer is over, which means all her innocents and happiness has disappeared.
In the last line of the story it states “and the summer was over”. Summer is supposed to be something happy, but how could it end so suddenly? The word summer has many different connotations that are associated with it such as happy, innocent, and freedom. So now understanding that there is also another missing piece to this puzzle. The girls name is Myop which is short