“The Flower” by Alice Walker is a short story that took place in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. This story tells us about a little girl named Myops, a little girl who is African American and her journey through the woods and fields that are behind her house. She loves to explore the land that her and her mom went on to find anything they needed but this time she went by herself. When Myop is on her journey, she makes her own path and goes into the woods about a mile or so from her house. As she is coming back to the house she stumbles upon something that was quite unusual for a little girl to see. Myop sees a man that is lying dead on the path that she as traveling on. The man’s head was beside his body and the man had a “naked grin” on the man’s face. Along the way to discover the man in the woods, Myop approaches items that symbolize a deeper meaning in the story which help readers understand the story. Walker uses symbolism to create a theme that surround the
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Walker does not give the readers much detail of what race that man was, she only explain that the man was in a state of decomposing and gives some incite of how the man looked. With this much detail the readers would have to infer what happened to the man. As Walker is give the readers the image of the man looks like and states that there was a something also rotting in the soil. Walker states “It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of shedding, plowing, and now blending benignly into the soil.” The noose has a deeper meaning of death. As Myop approaches the noose she notices the man lying on the ground beside it, dead. The mood of the noose provides a dark and scary feeling because it is much unexpected when you are on a walk and you come across a dead man lying beside a noose, it provides a scary feeling. This represents the theme of Myop losing her innocence because of what she has
Walker does not give the readers much detail of what race that man was, she only explain that the man was in a state of decomposing and gives some incite of how the man looked. With this much detail the readers would have to infer what happened to the man. As Walker is give the readers the image of the man looks like and states that there was a something also rotting in the soil. Walker states “It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of shedding, plowing, and now blending benignly into the soil.” The noose has a deeper meaning of death. As Myop approaches the noose she notices the man lying on the ground beside it, dead. The mood of the noose provides a dark and scary feeling because it is much unexpected when you are on a walk and you come across a dead man lying beside a noose, it provides a scary feeling. This represents the theme of Myop losing her innocence because of what she has