Clue

After looking at the big picture of the story, Marigolds, and at its structure, instead of discovering things inside the story, I discovered things around the story. My perspective of Marigolds changed.

At first Lizabeth’s nostalgic and strange moment seemed to me, very unique. It was the story of a special girl from the rural lands of Maryland. But taking a viewpoint from above and looking at the structure of plots and not sentences, Lizabeth’s story became just another common example of every kind of mistake in our lives.

In the beginning Lizabeth was bored and with some friends chucked rocks at Miss. Lottie’s marigolds. Every mistake starts with a temptation. Burdened with guilt she spends the rest of the day in silence and regret. Usually these same patterns follow a mistake. Hearing her father, the one who used to life the family up, collapse, she gets stressed and depressed. And through that, without thinking, makes a huge error of demolishing the marigold field. This is also another way mistakes occur, out of carelessness.

In just one day, Lizabeth attacked Miss Lottie’s marigolds twice. The first offense was out of pure temptation and thrill, and the second out of rage. Both mistakes had a different degree of impact, one as an exposition and the other as a climax. The change of degree of similar events and the emphasis of mistakes in the structure, implied to me the theme of Marigolds: mistakes launch off from temptation or unconsciousness.