Lizabeth understands the destroying of Mrs. Lottie' marigolds as her final act of childhood, the final act of innocence.
Lizabeth feelings that led her to destroy the marigolds were "the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears".
The story is situated during the Great Depression. Her mother is never home because she has to work, her father cries because he can't provide for his family. You add the hopelessness of their poverty and the fact that she is going through defining times between being a woman and a child she doesn't understand at the moment, she must have felt confused and lonely, which leads to the destruction of the marigolds as an impulse she can't control.
Before she has stated that she hated those marigolds because they have the nerve to be beautiful in the midst of ugliness, they didn't match with the house, the times, and what she was feeling inside.
1. What do you think the narrator of “The Gift of the Magi” considers as having real value? - <span>the protagonists' love for each other </span>
2. In the story “The Gift of the Magi,” which of the following is an example of allusion? - <span>the discovery that the protagonists sold their most prized possessions </span>
3. In “Fabric of Their Lives,” what does the information about Annie Mae Young burning her quilts reveal about her personality? - <span>Young saw her quilts as something very private.</span>
4. In “Fabric of Their Lives,” Aronzia Pettway made quilts mostly to - <span>Become economicallyindependent.</span>
5. Both Marge Piercy and Walt Whitman believe that - <span>Art is not an important part of life.</span>
6. The poems in this unit express appreciation for - <span>the value of work.</span>
7. What is the meaning of meretricious as it is used in this sentence from “The Gift of the Magi”? - <span>Showy and vulgar</span>
8. Which vocabulary word completes this sentence CORRECTLY? When Mr. Klein realized that his true identity was revealed, he found himself in an interesting - <span>predicament </span>
9.Which of the following sentences uses capitalization CORRECTLY? - <span>I just read O. Henry's short story “The Gift of the Magi.”</span>
10. Which of the following sentences displays the CORRECT use of punctuation? (1 point)Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter, and poet is considered a true genius.
11. What connotation is attributed to the “parlor generals” in the following lines from “To Be of Use”? -<span>brutality</span>
Answer:
i finished the work i was doing
Answer:
They help with sleeping
Explanation:
I got it right on my test
