Marigolds is an emotional story that exemplifies the journey of a girl’s search to become a young woman. The author, Eugenia Collier, uses diction, connotation, and imagery to create a voice that reflects and expresses her well-being and her emotions that she had had at that time. She uses these literary elements to tell “Lizbeth’s” coming of age story. One example of diction from the text is, “the bewilderment of being neither a child nor a woman and yet both at once”. I reckon the author used “bewilderment” as a way to put out the character’s feeling of loneliness, this feeling lead to the destruction of the marigolds. Another example