Flowers,” by Maya Angelou, is also written in a way to teach readers many life lessons based on the author's own life experiences. For example, the excerpt explains that if you open up to your mentors and fellow man they can facilitate significant and extraordinary impacts upon you and your life. Marguerite describes walking Mrs. Flowers’ groceries to her house. When Mrs. Flowers begins to talk to her and tries to open her up as if she was a book:
"She said without turning her head, “I hear you're doing very good work, Marguerite, but that it's all written. The teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class."... I hold back in the separate unasked and unanswered questions…’Now no one is going to make you talk-possibly no one can. But bear in mind language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man, and its language alone which separates him from the lower animals”’ ( Angelou