Migrant Mothers By Eugenia Collier Summary

The key messages of an author, a poet, an artist, a photographer, or a politician can transport to an audience is the need for human compassion or empathy to inspire action or to make a difference that brings the hope of understanding and a higher expectation for humanity. Word choice and sensory details guide the reader’s to the deepest emotion, but an astonishing picture, documentaries, and an artwork of an artist can also change people’s opinion. Through a text or a broadcast can raise public awareness to people who really don’t understand the meaning behind it and photography can too. The sample of a fiction story, “Marigolds” By Eugenia Collier, and the excerpt from the informational portrait, “Migrant Mother” taken by Dorothea Lange, both notify the theme of poverty. Illustrate the story of a young girl who lived in a countryside Maryland during the Great Depression, that introduces the theme of poverty and empathy, and the photographs artist of Dorothea Lange and artist like her provide the main insights into the terrible living conditions of the migrant workers.

Eugenia includes the word ‘Innocence' for Lizabeth, it's stated on,”Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface.” Lizabeth learns that when she destroys Miss Lottie’s marigold she is no longer innocent, she was growing up. In the act of destroying the marigolds, she learns about being mature and accepting the responsibilities of her action in the future and she had become a human, in mind and spirit. Lizabeth feels empathy towards Miss Lottie because the sadness that she felt toward the old woman and realized what she did was wrong. You really can't express the same thing in a