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The children messed with Miss Lottie's beautiful marigolds.
She lost hope
In the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier, the main events include Lizabeth destroying Miss Lottie's marigolds out of frustration, Lizabeth's realization of the harshness of reality and her empathy toward Miss Lottie, and the symbolic significance of the marigolds representing hope and beauty amid the poverty and despair of the characters.
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Lizabeth, her parents, Joey, Miss Lottie, John Burke
She is able to feel compassion for Miss Lottie.
The children are motivated to bother Miss Lottie because they cannot understand her seemingly purposeless act of tending to marigolds, which stand out as the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak and poverty-stricken environment. Their frustration at their own lack of control over their circumstances comes out in their actions towards Miss Lottie and her flowers.
because the flowers remind her of va%*nas and she like va%*nas
cause shes an idiot, a ni#$er, and a les&*an
Eugenia Collier describes the setting of Marigolds and dusty and run down. Miss Lottie took great pride in her marigolds because they added a small amount of beauty to an otherwise ugly and dismal place.
The main characters in the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier are Lizabeth, the narrator who reflects on a pivotal experience from her childhood, and Miss Lottie, an elderly woman who grows marigolds in a ramshackle garden. These characters represent different perspectives on poverty, hope, and the loss of innocence.
they annoy her from always being loud and playing outsider her window i believe...its been a while