In the beginning of book “marigolds” a character named Lizabeth is both immature and innocent which can make her seem like a very childish character in the beginning of the book.
In the story’s ending Lizabeth showed she was immature by ripping away and taking her anger out on miss Lottie’s marigolds and ruined them for her reasons and was destroying Lottie’s only joy in life without realizing so. “I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms. The fresh smell of early morning and dew-soaked marigolds spurred me on as I went tearing and mangling and sobbing while Joey tugged my dress or my waist crying, “Lizabeth, stop, please stop!” “In the evidence I gave …show more content…
“The years have put words to the things I knew in that moment, and as I look back upon it, I know that that moment marked the end of innocence. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. In that humiliating moment I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person. This was the beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence. ”This evidence shows that Lizabeth realizes what she did was wrong and she developed sympathy as she quoted “I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person.”- making her a mature women that left her innocence and learned compassion. Some other evidence proves Lizabeth was mature later near the very end of the story in the text it says that she was a child but now she is a women, meaning she was innocent as a child and has matured as a women once she learned compassion. ““M-miss Lottie!” I scrambled to my feet and just stood there and stared at her, and that was the moment when childhood ended and womanhood began. That violent, crazy act was the last act of childhood.” This evidence shows that Lizabeth in the story was once immature like a child and grows character development as the paragraph continues on and realizes her crazy violent mistake making her
In the story’s ending Lizabeth showed she was immature by ripping away and taking her anger out on miss Lottie’s marigolds and ruined them for her reasons and was destroying Lottie’s only joy in life without realizing so. “I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms. The fresh smell of early morning and dew-soaked marigolds spurred me on as I went tearing and mangling and sobbing while Joey tugged my dress or my waist crying, “Lizabeth, stop, please stop!” “In the evidence I gave …show more content…
“The years have put words to the things I knew in that moment, and as I look back upon it, I know that that moment marked the end of innocence. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. In that humiliating moment I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person. This was the beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence. ”This evidence shows that Lizabeth realizes what she did was wrong and she developed sympathy as she quoted “I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person.”- making her a mature women that left her innocence and learned compassion. Some other evidence proves Lizabeth was mature later near the very end of the story in the text it says that she was a child but now she is a women, meaning she was innocent as a child and has matured as a women once she learned compassion. ““M-miss Lottie!” I scrambled to my feet and just stood there and stared at her, and that was the moment when childhood ended and womanhood began. That violent, crazy act was the last act of childhood.” This evidence shows that Lizabeth in the story was once immature like a child and grows character development as the paragraph continues on and realizes her crazy violent mistake making her