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The turning point for Marigolds is when Lizbeth goes back to Ms. Lottie's garden and destroys what is left of the marigolds. It is then that she realizes what she has done. She has destroyed the only beautiful thing in Ms. Lottie's life.
"...waiting was the sorrowful background music..." "poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped"
The children messed with Miss Lottie's beautiful marigolds.
mrs Lottie dies
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
because the flowers remind her of va%*nas and she like va%*nas
the marigolds symbolize the two sisters and the mother is the radiation
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.
She is able to feel compassion for Miss Lottie.