Sumer is Over Alice Walker pulls her readers into the world of a young girl in the time after slavery in her short story, “The Flowers. “ In the story, summer is a symbol for joyful and simple times. Myop, a young sharecropper girl of ten years of age, now knows it is not the same happy times as her childhood. The good times are gone for her now, “And summer was over.” At such a young age she wonders, “Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family’s cabin,” into a strange new “haunt.” She is changing. In this historical moment in time in which the setting of the story is placed, there is much discrimination; however, through the lens of innocence she merely, “skipped lightly,” through life, ignorant to the dangers. Myop is experiencing
