The story Marigolds tells about the loss of innocence in a young girl. The author, Eugenia Collier, wrote about a young girl named Lizabeth living during the Great Depression. Lizabeth faces challenges, and realizes how things can change. She starts to see beauty where she didn’t before. This is where Lizabeth starts to mature and stops with all of her childish antics. Lizabeth plants her own marigolds, turning from a child, to a young woman. Lizabeth is growing up in poverty, and she’s angry at that. But in a final lashing out at the only beauty there was-Miss Lottie’s marigolds- she sees the point of the flowers being there. The author stated that Lizabeth and the other kids in the neighborhood do not necessarily hate Miss Lottie, but rather,
