Alice Walker: The Flowers
... interests she approaches to the ground. There she finds remains of a noose and a ring around the rose’s root. She adds the rose to her bundle and finally lays it down. Analyse The remains of a noose means that the man was hung. One guess that explains the death of the man is that he did not obey his employer and violate the rules or even protested. Also plausible is that he could not stand the pressure of all day working hard and feeling to be destitute. The man namely might be a slave. For both interpretation you assume that the story plays in the 19th to 20th century. The short story also describes the way young people like Mayop grows up. In first glance the environment seems peaceful but the children gets in their life very early with reality confronted. Thus Mayops childhood is over when she discovered t...