Flowers in the Attic
By
V. C. Andrews
Author Biography:
Virginia Cleo Andrews was born on the 6th of June in 1923 in Virginia. In her teenage years, Virginia was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis that would later on keep her in a wheelchair. Upon completing high school, she would go on to complete a four year art course that she was able to take at home. She created a successful business for herself by selling her artistic abilities, but she soon realized that she wasn’t satisfied. She began writing in secret each night, and self-published two novels. Virginia is most known for the Dollanganger series that includes Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday. She passed away from breast cancer …show more content…
Corrine’s parents grow angry, so they punish Corrine by removing her from the will. The conflict picks back up after a tragic accident when the children’s mother begs her own mother to let them move in without her father knowing about the children. The children hope for a loving grandmother, but instead they meet an angry, cold grandmother. The children grow curious about some of the ideas the grandmother forbids them to think about, which leads them to feel ashamed of themselves. Quotes from Flowers in the Attic:
“For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. Paper flowers. Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held as prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed” (Andrews 3). “Your mother’s crimes are against God, and the moral principles society lives by. Hers was an unholy marriage, a sacrilege! A marriage that was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they had to have children – four of them! Children spawned from the Devil! Evil from the moment of conception” (Andrews 87)!
What the Critics Say
“Flowers in the Attic is also an irresistible love story - of forbidden love, of course. Not the "Romeo and Juliet" kind when the lover is from the wrong family. This is forbidden love because the lover is in the same family” (Flowers (And Family’s Dysfunction) ‘In the Attic’
By
V. C. Andrews
Author Biography:
Virginia Cleo Andrews was born on the 6th of June in 1923 in Virginia. In her teenage years, Virginia was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis that would later on keep her in a wheelchair. Upon completing high school, she would go on to complete a four year art course that she was able to take at home. She created a successful business for herself by selling her artistic abilities, but she soon realized that she wasn’t satisfied. She began writing in secret each night, and self-published two novels. Virginia is most known for the Dollanganger series that includes Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday. She passed away from breast cancer …show more content…
Corrine’s parents grow angry, so they punish Corrine by removing her from the will. The conflict picks back up after a tragic accident when the children’s mother begs her own mother to let them move in without her father knowing about the children. The children hope for a loving grandmother, but instead they meet an angry, cold grandmother. The children grow curious about some of the ideas the grandmother forbids them to think about, which leads them to feel ashamed of themselves. Quotes from Flowers in the Attic:
“For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. Paper flowers. Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held as prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed” (Andrews 3). “Your mother’s crimes are against God, and the moral principles society lives by. Hers was an unholy marriage, a sacrilege! A marriage that was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they had to have children – four of them! Children spawned from the Devil! Evil from the moment of conception” (Andrews 87)!
What the Critics Say
“Flowers in the Attic is also an irresistible love story - of forbidden love, of course. Not the "Romeo and Juliet" kind when the lover is from the wrong family. This is forbidden love because the lover is in the same family” (Flowers (And Family’s Dysfunction) ‘In the Attic’