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“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is an intriguing short story with heaps of substantial symbols and messages. On the other hand, coming of age is a significant theme that is represented vastly throughout the story. To start, initially Myop is a young, innocent ten-year-old girl living in her picturesque and tranquil life where no violence, inequality, or inhumanity exists. For instance, “It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly… that the days had never been as beautiful as these. She was ten, and…

plopped more sand onto our deformed sandcastle. It almost looked like a mountain, but all of the seashells really felt like the beach. "This is the best sandcastle ever." I smiled, as we molded our hands into the sand. It was becoming more of a slumpy mound of seashells, sand, and tiny pebbles of rock. "We need something to finish it off..." Shelbie looked around…

The Flowers The world is a sugarcoated image in the eyes of a child. The real picture goes unnoticed, masked by imagination and ignorance. In the short story “The Flowers” the author closes with the words, “And the summer was over.” She means that now the character realizes there is more to life than what she limited herself to and there also is bad things that happen beyond her imaginative mindset. The author, Alice Walker, describes her character, Myop, as a carefree ten year old…

The prairie dog has a very advanced home. The prairie dog is a small rabbit-sized rodent. Prairie dogs are small rabbit-sized rodents that live in grasslands in North America. They live in underground burrows, large tunnels, and chambers marked by mounds of dirt by their entrances. Burrows also have nurseries, toilets, sleeping quarters, and they even have listening posts. Prairie dogs are pretty advanced, for an animal. Prairie dogs live in large colonies, in underground burrows in grasslands…

the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size... ” (Poe 10). The imagery in this quote gives the reader no end of anxiety as to what the future holds. First, the quote takes place in a crypt, a place of burials, which starts this off with a chilling essence. Next, Poe writes that the walls were covered in dead bodies, and there was a mound of dead bodies.…

Normally, a painted desert scene and a horse sculpture don’t have very many things in common, if at all. In Passover, Dennis Blagg has created a stunning and realistic painting. In contrast, Hina, sculpted by Deborah Butterfield is an extraordinary sculpture of a resting horse. While the pieces are different art forms, they both convey the beauty of organic forms in nature. Dennis Blagg is an extremely talented artist in the Southwest area, particularly the Big Bend National Park region of…

Baseball brings passion, pain, and excitement to people all over the world; from little kids that run the bases at a major league baseball game to a previous President of the United States that throws the first pitch. Baseball is one word in which would describe my identity. The pain that I endured, the struggle that I overcame, and the championships I won have truly made me the person I am today. From the early morning practices to the midnight championships, I have learned how to become a…

the lettuce so it does not fall off the side of the buns and fill the box. 7. Once slice of McDonald’s cheddar cheese is carefully laid on the mound of lettuce on the bottom bun. With this cheese the corners of the cheese should point to the straight sides of the box. 8. Now, two of the already cooked meats are assembled. One is placed on the mound of lettuce on the middle bun and the other is on top the cheese. The meat needs to be centered to ensure it does not push any other condiments…

funeral, Adiga symbolizes the mud of the Ganga River to capture the audience’s attention. His mother’s body struggles against the mud, which is “holding her back: this big, swelling mound of black ooze. She was trying to fight the black mud…but the mud was sucking her in…Soon she would become part of the black mound” (12). Adiga applies symbolism to represent the mud of the Ganga River towards the harsh cycle of cruelty, which traps the unfortunates in the darkness. This captivates the reader in…

In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope to Miss Lottie. First, Miss Lottie sees the kids destroying her flowers she gets very upset and enraged. “She shook her stick at us and started shakily toward the road crying” (146). After her flowers were destroyed, she had nothing else to do besides cry. These marigolds meant a lot to her and her flowers were destroyed right in front of her eyes. Second, Miss Lottie took very good care of her flowers and kept them in really…