Marigolds By Eugenia Collier Analysis

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Childhood. The period of time between ages three to eleven .The times where you learn lessons by simply living your life. Adolescence, by the age of 12 we almost know how to completely take care of ourselves. Lizabeth from Eugenia Collier’s “Marigolds” is at a point in her life where her adolescence is fading into the long path of adulthood. He twisted and conflicted emotions and thoughts crowd her judgment. The adult in Lizabeth begins to shine through her twisted teen emotions and develop her sense of sense of compassion throughout the entire story. Lizabeth is in a very confusing phase of her life, She is in a stage where we are all trying to find ourselves and map out our lives. She is at a time where she still can run around and have fun with all the children, but at certain times she has a sense of power that would be found in most adults. He adolescence affects her decisions when she leads the other children on a quest to taunt and annoy Miss Lottie. Lizabeth’s approaching adulthood causes her to be, “…mad with the power of inciting such rage, and ran out of the bushes in the storm of …show more content…

Any adult would know not to get up the middle of the night and cause destruction Lizabeth could no longer control her emotions the night her father came home and cried to her mother, “I had lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of the summer swelled in me and burst…” (Collier 12) Lizabeth, still being a child was so caught up in her feelings that she didn’t think of anything she was doing until after it was done. She trampled and pulled the Marigolds destroying the beauty that Miss Lottie had worked so hard to create. After the demolition of the Marigolds Lizabeth’s childish side if no longer present within her. She is left standing in the ruins of a once beautiful garden, “…awkward and ashamed.”(Collier 13) A girl thrown into womanhood by a great act of emotional

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