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Reem Elkheir
Professor M. Dolan
English 102
July 13, 2017
Life is Unusual
Life has its unexpected turns and in that case we choose the way to handle and steer
those turns. There are things we see and experience that can change our whole outlook on
life. Before we see what life is really like we have the stage of innocence. This is usually
when we are children and don’t know any better. In this stage of our lives what game and
what crayon you are going to choose is what matters. Then comes reality and that’s when
growing up is a means of facing all the true colors of life. The short story “Flowers” by Alice
Walker is a story that shows the loss of innocence. This short story wasn’t lengthy however it
had much meaning. Reading it was shocking and what happens was not expected. Stories can
create an close connection between us the readers and author. Literature taps the emotion of
us readers on a conscious and sub-conscious level. It’s also mirrors life because it is a
window into the many realities of altered people who live in different worlds. Literature is
the mirror of life, because it reflects the things people encounter in their daily lives.
Innocence is something we all carry in our time being and the way we lose it is what
makes us who we are in a way. We are all born to die but we don’t all know that as children.
It’s something we progressively learn to accept once we are older. In this short story, the life
of Myob changes vastly just by discovering a sight she wasn’t expecting. Literature always
somehow throws a jab at you especially with “Flowers” because reading it; Readers would
not expect what she comes across. Walker started us off with a happy beginning and with that
she wants to portray to the readers how life has its ups and there are times when things are
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going great. As Myop skips she gets really far too where she encounters a harsh part of life
that she didn’t know about.
Myop’s mood is of peaceful and happy as she is skipping and walking around her
family’s sharecropping farm, moving around “from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse,”.
Nature for Myop is also what seems to make her happy cause to her life is beautiful and there
is not disappointing occurrence’s that she came across yet. Singing and playing with a stick
as she goes down the field and enters a world of her own she loses the track of steps she’s
taken. Her joy is further shown in her venture of picking wildflowers and singing but her
purity takes away her fear of being far away from home and being alone. She loses track of
time which can mirror how in life we can go further than we expect. As she skips she goes
too far and this carries her a mile or more away from home. The farther she moves from the
