Two Kinds And Marigolds Analysis

Throughout both stories“Two kinds”, and Marigolds, feelings are shared between both major characters. Those feeling being epiphany, anger, and nothingness. The emotions that are shared show how the character really feels about the situations that they are in. Nikan feels that her mother is running her life and she can't be herself. Lizabeth is angry that everyone around her is happy and she isn't, why aren't they angry like she is.

In “Two kinds” and in “Marigolds” both Lizabeth and Nikan have somewhat of an epiphany in their story's. Lizabeth had her epiphany when she started to rip the flowers from Mrs Lottie's garden. She did so for the reason she saw her dad crying, it really shook her world. she states that “I looked back upon it and knew in that moment marked the end of innocence.” Nikan had a dose of reality when she screamed at her mother wishing she was dead. That caused her mother to walk away from the argument …show more content…
Lizabeth felt like nothing when she states that they were only vaguely aware of their poverty. That people would write books and hold conferences about us. “Having no radios, few newspapers, and no magazines, we were somewhat unaware of the world outside of the community.” Nikan said that it was not the first time her mother felt disappointment is her. Making her feel that she had nothing to offer her mother. “ I did not fear failure, I expected it.”

The girls in the stories are very similar in a lot of ways but the main topics that they shared was epiphany. The both realize how their actions work, and how their actions effect on people. When the girls expressed anger they show that life itself is hard, and there's going to be a point in their lives when they have had enough. The last emotion is nothingness, they feel that they feel like nothing in there life is going right, and it's to tough to go through it. But there is one more feeling between Lizabeth and Nikan,