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The Flowers
First, begin by thinking of the significance of the little girl's name. Myop is short for "myopia" a eye condition where one cannot see things far away (near-sightedness). Little Myop cannot see...
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Myop could be short for myopathy. Myopathy is a condition that leaves a person with short-sightedness. Myop revels in her own world. She takes pleasure in her family, but might not see it as...
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The key conflict in this story is between innocence and experience, or the innocence of Myop, the key character, in her childlike wonder and attitude to the world, and then the state of experience...
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Alice Walker's "The Flowers" is a impactful short story with the wallop of an explosion in the midst of a rose garden: her artfully constructed plot in no way prepares the reader for Myop's...
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Even though "The Flowers" is not a long story, it is filled with amazing descriptions and details, and contains a profound message of lost innocence at the end. One way that Alice Walker...
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This is a good question, because the story doesn't really go into detail about her thoughts, feelings or fears. Instead, it only shows what she does. So, we have to infer what she is feeling,...
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Flowers are an important symbol in the story, representing the beauty and sweetness of innocence, ignorance and youth. Myop carries flowers with her that are as beautiful and unknowing as she is...
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This very short, short story surely packs a punch in the end. The simple title of "The Flowers" starts the reader on a positive note and the majority of the descriptions in the first paragraph...
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The protagonist of Alice Walker's short story The Flowers is an innocent, playful 10-year-old African American girl named Myop, a particularly unusual name derived from the word "myopia," or...
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This line represents the theme and the conflict resolution simultaneously. The theme is the loss of innocence, seen in Myop's abrupt realization of the evil that men are capable of. At the same...
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In the beginning we see everything that's innocent. Everything "seems" happy, warm and inviting. The air has a "keenness" about it while the "warm" sun is about. The whole setting is expressed as...
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Walker skillfully creates one mood and then abruptly alters it in "The Flowers." She achieves this in describing Myop's actions, and sensory details to create vivid imagery. These words create such...
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Interestingly, in Alice Walker's short story "The Flowers", there is no literal indication of the dead man's race. However, using historical and authorial context, the reader can draw the...
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Myop's name looks much like the word myopia, which denotes nearsightedness, and the word myopic, which pertains to being short-sighted, both physically and figuratively. The young girl of Alice...
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The conflict in this story is that of racism with Myop's discovery of the remains of a lynching victim. The role of racist violence and the acceptance /approval from law enforcement form the main...
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Think about the images or feelings you associate with flowers. Usually, flowers are a thing of beauty. People give flowers to their loved ones or use them to decorate their own homes. For most...
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In this particular story, the noose represents a couple of things for Myop. To begin, Myop notices the first piece of the noose as she finds a pink flower. Very near where she'd stepped into the...
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On its surface, and almost until the very end, "The Flowers" seems to be a sweet little tale about a girl, Myop, who is enjoying a stroll through the forest. She is young, happy, innocent and...
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The point of view for most of Alice Walker's "The Flowers" is that of an omniscient narrator, but it becomes third person objective near the story's end. For most of the story, the narrator knows...
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Alice Walker's story "The Flowers" is about a child's loss of innocence. More particularly, it is about a black child's confrontation with the brutality of racism. Myop is a ten-year-old girl, the...
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If we consider the entirety of the story, it could be considered an example of situational irony that she lays down the flowers. This is only because at the beginning of the story, she is so...
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This is obviously a subjective question that could only be answered in earnest by the person asked. However, there is one very obvious moment that is incredibly shocking in Alice Walker's "The...
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"The Flowers" by Alice Walker is a powerful short story about a young girl's discovery of death in the beauty of nature. I believe the answer to your question lies in the setting itself. At the...
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It isn't just the discovery of a human skull that changes Myop. She is “unafraid” and only gives “a little yelp of surprise” having stepped on the skull. It’s the noose that finally establishes the...
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In Alice Walker's short story "The Flowers," a young girl named Myop makes a horrific discovery: she finds the body of a man who was lynched. This marks a turning point in her life, as she is no...
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The short story "The Flowers" by Alice Walker tells of a 10-year-old African American girl named Myop who is the daughter of sharecroppers. Despite her family's humble circumstances, she is full of...
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Tone is used very effectively in the story to help the reader see the little girl’s loss of innocence. Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject. You can tell the tone from the diction....
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The most obvious way that death is present as a theme is through the fact that Myop discoveres an actual dead person in the forest, and has to come to the harsh reality that people die, and...
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Walker's intention was to remind readers of racism in this country, and that the racism has a base in history. If we forget the history, we are doomed to repeat it. The history comes in the...
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Myop’s confrontation with the grim and dark reality of the world surrounding her induced the change in her. So far cocooned in parental love and care, Myop had been living in her own innocent and...
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In this story, Myop is 10 years old, which is an age right on the cusp of adulthood, but still firmly standing in the world of childhood. She is carefree, life is good, she feels safe, protected...
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Walker's brief and haunting story suggests that appearances are deceiving. Myop is a happy young child enjoying a summer's day. She is skipping through the woods, carrying flowers, and enjoying...
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Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” is about an afternoon in the life of Myop, the daughter of sharecroppers in post-Civil War America. Although the story is quite brief, Walker paints a vivid picture of...
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One may be happier in certain situations when one’s oblivious to the truth, but calling ignorance bliss wouldn't, perhaps, be right. In the story “The Flowers,” Myop’s existence, until she...
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The flowers in this story work in tandem with many other symbols to indicate Myop's coming-of-age and her loss of innocence. In order to gather the flowers, she must "[turn] her back on the rusty...
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Paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 reveal that Myop lives the simple life of a sharecropper's daughter. As sharecroppers, her family is presumably poor; so, Myop's play consists of her exploration of the...
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As it is more implied that "The Flowers" takes place during the Reconstruction era and that Myop is the daughter of sharecroppers, it is safe to say that she herself is not a slave. The most...
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"The Flowers" by Alice Walker is a very short story, and because of its length, there is not a terrible amount of explicit detail about setting. But thanks to Walker's prowess as a short story...
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Walker uses onomatopoeia early in the story to convey the lighthearted ease with which Myop taps out the beat of a song with her stick: She was ten, and nothing existed for her but song, the stick...
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The opening paragraphs of "The Flowers" portray a pastoral scene of rustic and natural beauty and peace. Walking outside at a sharecropper's farm, Myop delights in nature: The air held a keenness...
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There are a lot of movies out there that are centered around the persecution that black people received, and even some that deal specifically with lynchings, white violence, and the injustice...
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Myop's family works as sharecroppers, so we know that this story takes place sometime after the end of the Civil War. She is only ten, so it is unlikely, even if she lived soon after the Civil War,...
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In Alice Walker's "The Flowers," the narrator shows the aftermath of a lynching through the eyes of an innocent young girl named Myop, who happens to be collecting flowers when she finds the body....
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Myop’s unexpected introduction to the brutal and grisly aspect of the world brings about a change in her. Until now, her world began and ended with the woods, the stream, flowers, pigs and chickens...
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Your instructor has provided for you a very clear outline of what he or she is looking for in your analysis of this short story. We here at enotes can't write the paper for you, but here are a few...
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1. "It was then she stepped smack into his eyes." Alice Walker makes a point of describing the little girl's perfectly happy, carefree amble through the woods, and then this-she steps...
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The first paragraph of the story introduces us to its little protagonist, Myop. As soon as we read the name Myop, we try to draw its association with the word ‘myopia’ or ‘myopic.’ According to...
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Alice Walker's story "The Flowers" is similar to Paul Haggis' Crash in the sense that both works explore the theme of racism and its effects on society. In "The Flowers," a little girl's innocence...
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The main difference between what occurs in the two young lives of the protagonists of Walker's and Updike's stories is that the loss of a romantic notion of life is forced upon Myop while Sammy...