...In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier, Lizabeth feels that the boundary lines in her world have changed when she, Joey and his friends throw pebbles at the marigolds, when her father cries, and when she tears apart Miss Lottie’s flowers in the night. First off, Lizabeth is a fourteen-year-old girl living in the Great Depression, in a small poverty-stricken town. She is at the age where she feels she is becoming more woman than child. In the beginning, according to Lizabeth, about the moment they were preparing to attack the marigolds, “I just stood there… torn between wanting to join the fun and feeling that it was all a bit silly,¨ (page 3). Lizabeth, Joey and his friends were hiding in the bushes, collecting stones, as they were getting ready to chuck the rocks at the marigolds Miss Lottie was tending. Lizabeth wanted to help...
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...In Eugenia W. Collier's "Marigolds", Lizabeth struggles with the emotional transition from childhood to adulthood as she starts feeling torn about her identity as either a child or an adult. The narrator feels that "the child inside [her] [sulks] and [says] it [is] all fun and games" while at the same time "the woman in [her] [flinches] at the malicious attack [she] [led]" on Miss Lottie's marigolds (Collier 86). Even though she would enjoy throwing stones when she was younger, Lizabeth feels conflicted because of things that she normally enjoys now make her feel ashamed of herself. Feeling insecure, she starts to bottle up all of her emotions of figuring out who she is. Lizabeth also feels isolated as "all the smoldering emotions of that summer...
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...My own marigolds like the one in the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier was a simple yet elegant plastic painting in the shape of a penguin. I got it as a return gift from a birthday party I attended when I was about 10-12 years old. After painting it the best as I could I had to let it dry so I had the best idea ever which was to put it over an air vent so that the drying process would be sped up. I put my painting near the air vent that leads to the porch. Then came time for the monthly potluck at Pranav’s house. Pranav is my indian friend. The theme for this potluck was indian so my mom brought a huge amount of somasoas. His house is pretty close to mine so we decided that instead of driving to his house we should just walk there. So...
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...What if you played the part of Lizabeth in the story Marigolds? How would you react to the memories you miss? What would you have done to help your family out back during the Great Depression. Well i’m going to tell you about the story Marigolds wrote by Eugenia Collier a story wrote during the Great Depression. First there was this one girl named Lizabeth and some kids who went to go throw rocks and pick on Miss Lottie because she stayed in an old dull brown beat up house but she had a small beautiful garden in the garden that Miss Lottie had was fresh painted red,orange, and yellow flowers was called Marigolds. Some evidence show that the kids threw rocks at Miss Lottie and her son. Then Lizabeth realized why Miss...
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