Danny's Plant Sequel “Mom, please, make like a tree and leave!” Everyone burst out laughing at my pun. After school, later that day, Mother brought me to the horticulture shop to look at plants. They looked so pretty! I pleaded my mom to buy me a packet of flower seeds. She agreed and bought it for me.
John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" is about a proud, strong woman named Elisa Allen who feels frustrated with her present life. Her frustration stems from not having a child and from her husband's failure to admire her romantically as a woman. The only outlet for her frustration is her flower garden where she cultivates beautiful chrysanthemums. Steinbeck uses chrysanthemums as symbols of the inner-self of Elisa and of every woman. First, the chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa's children.
From Elisa’s perspective, the man’s acknowledgement of the chrysanthemums symbolize that, for once in her life, someone has finally seen her beauty, and her hard work. Moreover, the man wants to take some of the flowers, symbolizing that the man deems Elisa’s essence worthy of being taken to other places. Indeed, the flowers hold a very important place within
An example of the rose appearing is when Hamid returns home and begins to pull the roses out from the garden, but then is stopped by Amir. The rose is an important symbol in the play as it has many different meanings. It represents hope for Hamid and Jhila and it also gives us, the audience an idea of the characters intentions and
–Steinbeck Pg. 166” This is Elisa reaction after the tinker takes interest in the chrysanthemums. As she give the chrysanthemums to him she also offers herself symbolically. It is this connection that helps us understand why she cries at the end of the story. “She whispered to herself sadly, “he might have thrown them off the road.
The visitor creates trust when he shows interest in her flowers. He offers to take some of Elisa chrysanthemums to a garden down the road Elisa behavior towards him changes after he offers to take the flowers to a nearby garden. Her mood changed from irritated and resistance to excited. Elisa is very frustrated with life and marriage that she eventually looks to the stranger for stimulating conversation and even sex, two things that are lacking in her life. When the stranger leaves Elsa changes her physical appearance.She now dresses like a women, wears makeup, and even fixes her hair.
I arrived to this conclusion because the story describes how Elisa’s husband hardly ever showed any interest in her, and that she would never get any type of attention, so she felt for an stranger’s trap in the search for attention. 5. Why did she cry like an old woman? Because she felt like a beautiful woman again, but all of that was a game that an stranger had played on her in order for her to let him fix some pots in her garden. 6.
Discuss how innocence and loss thereof, are portrayed in Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers’ and Lillian Heker’s ‘The Stolen Party’ “Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.” –Hector Tobar. This quote gives a reason as to why innocence may be lost due to experience. In the short story, ‘The Flowers’ by Alice Walker, a young girl discovers a hung man in the woods while she is picking flowers. We see how she changes after that experience as she has been exposed to something that she will never fully recover from. The name of the short story is important as flowers symbolise innocence due to their beauty and delicacy but it can also symbolize death as they are associated with funerals and graves.
Shakespeare uses this metaphor to give the reader/audience an image in their minds of what Laertes thinks of Hamlet and what he is doing to Ophelia. The image of a blossom is beautiful, starting to grow to its full potential, sprouting, young, innocent, etc. But when a worm comes and eats/destroys the blossom, it is no longer beautiful, worthy, long-lasting, innocent, but becomes warn-down and not useful. When Laertes says this advice to Ophelia it gives her the picture that because Hamlet cannot love her, she should not become attached, for if she does, she will become warned down and tired. This strategy of a metaphor characterizes Laertes as someone who thinks of the future and is wise and logical.
The significance of Sofia’s role is to be a foil to Celie. A prominent characteristic between Celie and Sofia is their confidence within. Celie gets a visit from Nettie and Mr. _____ starts to flirt with her. She ignores him and passes every compliment he gives to Celie. Celie narrates,” She tell me, Your skin.