In Eugenia Collier’s “Marigolds”, Lisbeth experiences a time in life when we transform from our childish state of mind to the understanding and wiser mind of an adult just as the same, Jem is coming to this age event in “Chapter 11” of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Both of these stories are different but are similar in many ways, in that each of the story’s protagonists lash out against its older antagonist characters and their flowers. The protagonists Jem and Lisbeth are both children that live in a poverty stricken town that are going through a period of their life when they are going to be transitioning from a child to a grown up and ended up wiser at the end. The antagonists Miss Lottie and Mrs. Dubose are both women have a garden of flowers whom the main characters doesn't like and ends up having them destroyed for the kids to learn a lesson. Theses outcomes are the consequences of the protagonists’ actions and reactions of the other characters even though the women were not …show more content…
She goes throughout the story changing more into a woman with each event she encounters realizing that she was going through a change. Lisbeth says “ Suddenly I was ashamed, and I did not like being ashamed. The child in me sulked and said it was all in fun, but the women in me flinched at the thought of the malicious attacked that I lead.” (124). At this point Lisbeth sees this changing that she is going through. At final straw is when Lisabeth destroys the antagonist Miss Lottie’s garden as her final act of children. In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem is bullied by an old lady who is the antagonists and he acts in this definite way and destroys her garden and then has to read to her for a month but by doing this he learns a lesson. Even though these are two different characters they both go through the changing ways of life each gaining a different