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The Flowers

            
            
             In this theme it seems to be that everything is going good but you never know when it's going it turn bad.
             2. That happiness is followed by loss.
             3. That the birth of something can be followed by the death or loss of something else.
             Major characters.
             Myop.
             1.youthful.
             2.cheerful.
             3.caring.
             4. curious.
             5.playful.
             6. respectful.
             7. adventurous.
             8. enthusiastic.
             9. innocent.
             Point of View.
             1. "The flower" is written in Third Person omniscient. The narrator wants the reader to see that Myop is an innocent and youthful child. When she finds the dead man her views change and not everything is so wonderful anymore. Myop realizes that the real world isn't as nice as it really seems.
             Place- The short story takes place rural America.
             Setting- The story setting takes place around her family's sharecropper cabin in the summer time. It also takes place in the woods behind her parent's house.
             Time- 1973, This short story takes play during the feminist movement of African American.
             Symbolism.
             1. This story takes place during the late summer time it symbolizes that things are leading toward change.
             2. The woods were she went with her mother in late autumn symbolized that it was about to change and the woods are mostly dark and scary.
             3. Strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush full of the brown, fragrant buds. It symbolizes how she was and that it was different to her. The brown represent that something bad is about to happen.
             4. Myop laid down the flowers represents the respect to the man and a closer to her that summer was over.
             5. His large white teeth represent the death of this man that his spirit has been lifted.
             6. The air was damp, the silence close and deep. That she will discover the death of this man.
            


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