Eugenia Collier's "Marigold" is a memoir of a girl with a color living in the Great Depression. This story is not a question that society brings to the narrator (Elizabeth), but rather focuses on her conflict. Collier used Calendula to show that changes from childhood to adulthood fear Elizabeth and Elizabeth is the enemy of sympathy and hope. "Golden hibiscus" is about change. - "Marygold" is a story written by the author Eugenia Collier. It is considered a "story of a mature era". A mature story is a story where the hero becomes an adult through experience, knowledge or adventure. Through the story, hero Lisa experienced the experience of making her angry. These experiences taught her to be more considerate than fear of hope and beauty.
Let's see an example of Eugenia Collier's short novel "Marigold". The story happened in the rural community of African-Americans in the 1930's. This is also known as the Great Depression. In the past decade, apartheid, destructive poverty, and high unemployment rate are characterized. In this theme of excerpts, poverty plays an important role. As you read, think about how poverty affects the relationship between its role and its overall theme.
In Eugenia Collier 's short story "Marigold", a girl named Elizabeth and his family had a hard time during the Great Depression. Elizabeth is a mature African-American girl. Elizabeth 's family was very poor, living in the poor city. Elizabeth and her family must experience a struggle for poverty, distress and meaningful controversy within the family, and Elizabeth is caught between child and woman turmoil. Elizabeth and her family are struggling to call the "punishment" of poverty. Elizabeth was hard to cope with poverty mainly because she destroyed calendula in Miss Lotti's garden. At the beginning of the story, Collier displayed an image resembling the town Elizabeth was forced to live without. Elizabeth just "seems to remember the dust - brown and fragile dust"
Her perspective on life and how she sees things. The girl sees things through a child's eyes. She doesn't truly understand her hardships or what its like to be an adult in the time she was in; The Great Depression. The secrets in the story are more noticable. A author is supposed to hint things, and maybe wrap up unanswered questions. Such as, Why the girl had never seen her father cry or why she despised the marigolds in the first place. Why the narrator acted why she did. Details that are explained or not, you infer from them to answer such questions. In order to infer you must look past the surface and catch onto the details. Perhaps the narrator was dealing with so much in her time at the moment she feeled like she had to grow up? Or perhaps her family was dealing with the depression harder than most, that was why her father was so upset.
Just like the story of the "Marigolds", "Migrant Mother" also tells a story and holds many secrets and question, due to the hidden details. Because "Migrant Mother" is a photograph and not a full fledged story with precise words and meanings, its more mysterious with hidden details. Just because it is a photograph doesn't mean its not a story. In the picture you see a poor woman with her children hiding their faces avoiding the camera. This story is from an on lookers point of view, not anyone you see in the story. Just from those few details questions come up about the photo. From the back story of the painting it states that the woman has seven children and was a slave, a farm laborer. Looking past the the surface and paying attention to certain details you can infer that the time was around the Great Depression. The withered clothing, and the lack of cleaness means that the woman had to work harder in her time to support her family, to make sure they didn't end up on the street and end up dead.
"Migrant Mother" and "Marigolds" are two different types of art with different meanings and stories, but both are relatable, yet different. They are both told in a different point of view, but each point of view captures an important and significant piece in the story. By inferring and statements b the author, the two stories presented are around the same time line. Each family was going through hardships in such a crucial time.
