What might explain the children's reactions to the marigolds is the children's lack of sense of beauty.
Explanation:
For the children, in their innocence and lack of understanding, the marigolds did not fit Mrs. Lottie’s yard. Their instinct wanted to remove those flowers from there, because they didn't understand how something so beautiful could be in such a horrible place. Perhaps, in their perception of the world, being children, such a beautiful thing should only be surrounded by beautiful things. However, deep down, nobody dared to destroy the marigolds, so they just decided to make fun of Mrs. Lottie and throw stones at her house.
The first line of the poem 'To the doctor who treated the
raped baby and felt such despair' by Finuala Dowling is “<span>I just wanted to say on behalf of us all. The plural
pronoun used is ‘us’ which represents a lot of them wanted to say something to
the doctor but instead only a single person spoke.</span>
