Eugenia Collier

suggests that family disruption, poverty, and deprivation cause children to mature faster than they should. Lizabeth had to endure all of these conditions, which is why her loss of innocence was abrupt and difficult. In the short story “Marigolds,” Eugenia Collier utilizes symbols and conflict to illustrate that overcoming the loss of innocence is

of the biggest things people do not know how to use. The “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are both about dark times happening in their lives and how to get through them. Although both authors developed the idea that hard times are a part of life, Collier uses setting, and Hughes uses metaphors. Every author has the same idea, which is to make an impact on their readers. For example, Collier and Hughes impacted their readers when they wrote “Marigold” and “Mother

In the short story “Marigolds”, Eugenia Collier uses character development of the protagonist and mood to help the reader better understand that happiness doesn’t come from destroying one’s attempt at making beauty. Opening into the story, Collier uses mood to help the reader focus on the climax. The mood of the story starts out quite dim, dreary, and depressed. The narrator explains how she believes that God wasn’t accommodating and didn’t provide for them in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth

The Underlying Message Hidden Within Marigolds In Eugenia Collier’s short story, Marigolds, Lizabeth learns the hard truth of growing up from losing her temper which blurred her morals. At a turning point in a girl’s life, she will painfully transition from childhood to womanhood. Collier masterfully conveys this theme by her use of literary device foreshadowing, metaphors, and symbolism several times in the narrative. At the very beginning of the story, Lizabeth, looking back on her youthful days

When adolescents transform into adults, they think of this transformation based solely on appearance, but it is actually how they transform emotionally as well which leads into their highly yearnful adulthood. In the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the protagonist Lizabeth recalls her poverty-stricken childhood and the major events she experiences that causes her to be able to become more mature. By Lizabeth maturing from an ignorant girl to a compassionate woman, she is able to grow an

In the short story “Marigolds” written by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth comes of age when she destroys Mrs. Lottie’s marigolds. In a fit of rage and despair caused by built up emotions, Lizabeth pounces on Mrs. Lottie’s flowers, destroying them. When she sees Mrs. Lottie’s face, she feels as if “that was the moment when childhood faded and womanhood began”(Collier 8). This is the moment where Lizabeth feels as if her childhood is over and she has matured into womanhood. She comes of age as she realizes

Both the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and the poem “Hard on the Gas,” by Janet S. Wong convey the theme that is “growing up and maturing isn’t always easy”. “Marigolds is the story of an adolescent who is growing up in the Great Depression. Through hard experiences and tumultuous emotions, the narrator learns that growing up is full of ups and downs. “Hard on the Gas” is a poem about a grandchild driving with his or her grandfather. The grandchild realizes that the road isn’t always

Sometimes one has to go through alienation and isolation to reach a transformation. In both “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier and “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, the characters transform majorly due to their feelings of isolation. Marigolds is about a woman called Lizabeth recalling her coming of age experience and Miss Brill is about a lonely woman living in a fantasy life that she has created for herself. The theme of alienation and a definitive transformation is evident in both stories.

Collier uses symbols such as a potted geranium and marigolds to reveal the theme that, when a person is at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood, one must be able to

What does poverty mean to you? Poverty is people who are extremely poor. Poverty can have an impact on children's lives. Like from the story Marigolds by Eugenia Collier “Damn Mr. Ellis’s coat and damn his money! You think I want white folks leavings”. They got hand me downs and not brand new things wear that weren't used or broken in. Poverty has changed me today and how I look at things. My father is poor, we have been evicted from 3 houses, I gave my food for my siblings to eat. I went to school