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Because the flowersstood out of the old broken down house and Miss Lottie's son sitting in a rocking chair.

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Because the flowersstood out of the old broken down house and Miss Lottie's son sitting in a rocking chair.

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They where throwing pebbles at Miss Lottie's Marigold's and it made Miss Lottie mad.

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They where throwing pebbles at Miss Lottie's Marigold's and it made Miss Lottie mad.

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Because her brother Joey made her do it because he called her a chicken and it got her mad.

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Because her brother Joey made her do it because he called her a chicken and it got her mad.

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That they wheir poor and her father was crying over a white man giving his wife things and that he wasn't able to give his wife something.

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That they wheir poor and her father was crying over a white man giving his wife things and that he wasn't able to give his wife something.

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Because she needed to go somewhere she woudn't feel alone.

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Because she needed to go somewhere she woudn't feel alone.

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Because her parents got into a fight and she got mad and she used her rage on Miss Lottie's Marigold's.

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Because her parents got into a fight and she got mad and she used her rage on Miss Lottie's Marigold's.

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Because she wanted to remember Miss Lottie's Marigold's and her memories.

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Because she wanted to remember Miss Lottie's Marigold's and her memories.

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Becaeuse she felt bad that she riped out Miss Lottie's Marigold and she felt her child ness disapered from her body and became more mature.,

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Becaeuse she felt bad that she riped out Miss Lottie's Marigold and she felt her child ness disapered from her body and became more mature.,

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she became more mature

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to suppress her anger

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because she was scared

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because they thought it would be fun

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ripped them out of the ground

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because the flowers stood out

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To show she still feels bad and has planted those as memory.

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By destroying the flowers, she sprouted into adulthood. That was her last childish act.

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To get her anger out.

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To take her anger out on the marigold patch.

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That they are much more poor than she thought and her father doesnt want to take money from white people.

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It didnt look right to them, everything else was ugly, except for them.

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They throw rocks at the flowers, cutting the heads off to see miss lottie mad.

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Because the hut was ugly and the dirt was barren, the flowers just stood out.

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¨For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town. And I too have planted marigolds.¨

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For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town. And I too have planted marigolds. 

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For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town. And I too have planted marigolds. 

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¨ In that humiliating moment I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person. This was the beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence. ¨
she knew that was the last act of her child hood.

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¨for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst—the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction. ¨

She was emotionally overwhelmed and did not know how to act.

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for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst—the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction. 

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¨I was lost for a reasonable reply. I could not say, “I’m scared and I don’t want to be alone,”
From hearing what had happened and the silence she is has fear and isn´t able to sleep.

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8Start of paragraph 48 of 63I was lost for a reasonable reply. I could not say, “I’m scared and I don’t want to be alone,” 

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“Twenty-two years, Maybelle, twenty-two years,” he was saying, “and I got nothing for you, nothing, nothing.” 36Start of paragraph 36 of 63“It’s all right, honey, you’ll get something. Everybody out of work now, you know that.” 

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“Twenty-two years, Maybelle, twenty-two years,” he was saying, “and I got nothing for you, nothing, nothing.” 36Start of paragraph 36 of 63“It’s all right, honey, you’ll get something. Everybody out of work now, you know that.” 

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That his dad has no job because he is struggling to find a job.

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¨They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense. There was something in the vigor with which the old woman destroyed the weeds that intimidated us.¨
Personally they did not like how it made them feels and how it looked.

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¨We had to annoy her by whizzing a pebble into her flowers or by yelling a dirty word, then dancing away from her rage,¨

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¨We had to annoy her by whizzing a pebble into her flowers or by yelling a dirty word, then dancing away from her rage,¨

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they would threw rocks and damage the flowers because it made no sense with the ugliness. It intimidates them.

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¨Miss Lottie’s marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard. Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms,¨
there was a rotting porch with no grass but then there was just flowers.

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2Start of paragraph 22 of 63Miss Lottie’s marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard. Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms,

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To show herself that she has grown. I think its also because she wants to remind herself of that moment because it was such a big step for her in her life.

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To show herself that she has grown. I think its also because she wants to remind herself of that moment because it was such a big step for her in her life.

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She changed her perspective of Miss Lottie, seeing her more as a lost woman than a witch, and she turned from a child to an adult.

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She changed her perspective of Miss Lottie, seeing her more as a lost woman than a witch, and she turned from a child to an adult.

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She had a lot emotions like her being half woman half child, her mom not being there all the time, the fear from hearing her dad cry, the "hopelessness of our poverty and degradation". All this made her explode and have "one impulse toward destruction" 

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She had a lot emotions like her being half woman half child, her mom not being there all the time, the fear from hearing her dad cry, the "hopelessness of our poverty and degradation". All this made her explode and have "one impulse toward destruction" 

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"She's scared and she doesn't want to be alone" but of course she doesn't want to tell her brother that so she just leaves the house but let her brother come with her. 

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"She's scared and she doesn't want to be alone" but of course she doesn't want to tell her brother that so she just leaves the house but let her brother come with her. 

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She learned that they were really struggling, one, to find a job for her dad and two, to emotionally and physically be there for their children.

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She learned that they were really struggling, one, to find a job for her dad and two, to emotionally and physically be there for their children.

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They do it because they think it's fun and to them it feels like its the only thing they can do.

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They do it because they think it's fun and to them it feels like its the only thing they can do.

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They start to throw rocks directly at the flowers

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They start to throw rocks directly at the flowers

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because when life gets dark you can always find the light in the little things that bring you joy

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she changed by not being selfish is now thinking about others and she apolgized

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becuse she needed to get all of her anger out to calm her down

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Because the bright color of the Marigolds doesn't match the bad condition of Miss Lottie's house

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Because the bright color of the Marigolds doesn't match the bad condition of Miss Lottie's house

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That they are not as stable as they seem they are.

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That they are not as stable as they seem they are.

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Cause her house is garbage her whole property is garbage and there are these nice pretty flowers

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they throw rocks

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It didn't go good with the her house and the street

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It didn't go good with the her house and the street

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the kids where bored and didnt have anything better to do

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they would throw rocks at the marigolds to decapitate the flower.

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they would throw rocks at the marigolds to decapitate the flower.

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because she was scared and she dident want to be alone so she left to go to get her anger out 

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because she was scared and she dident want to be alone so she left to go to get her anger out 

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they throw rocks to try and cut the marigolds top off

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they throw rocks to try and cut the marigolds top off

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they would trow stuff at them to ruin them

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Its the only house on the block that has some color and the other house are just old and dusty

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Its the only house on the block that has some color and the other house are just old and dusty

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Because show was accepting here feeling for what she did

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Because show was accepting here feeling for what she did

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because they where bright and yellow while everything else was dead

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that her dad was having a hard time finding a job to make maters wores they had hardly any money

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beacues they thoght it was funny to ruin them beacuse they had nouthing else to do 

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beacues they thoght it was funny to ruin them beacuse they had nouthing else to do 

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they start to throw things at them to ruin them

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becuse of the bright colers in a town with not so much coler

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she just needed to do that so she will not be sorry

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she just needed to do that so she will not be sorry

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First of all Lizabeth encouraged them and i think they did that because they thought it was funny when Miss Lottie chased and yelled at them same with her son.

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First of all Lizabeth encouraged them and i think they did that because they thought it was funny when Miss Lottie chased and yelled at them same with her son.

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To show that she has her life together and that is what keeps her calm

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They start throwing rocks at the flowers to cut the buds and the heads of the flowers off the stem.

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They start throwing rocks at the flowers to cut the buds and the heads of the flowers off the stem.

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they are arguing about one of them not having a job

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they are arguing about one of them not having a job

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After she destroyed the marigolds she became more mature

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Because there town is all plain and bland and Miss Lottie's is all nice.

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She was mad and stressed and didn't realize what she was doing.

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Because she was mad so she went to destroy the marigolds

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To show that she has passed the time where she was a child throwing rocks.

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To show that she has passed the time where she was a child throwing rocks.

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they thought it was funny to see Miss Lottie angry

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they thought it was funny to see Miss Lottie angry

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They kill the marigolds by throwing rock and cutting them.

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I think that the story ended with that line because she wanted to show gratitude.

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I think that the story ended with that line because she wanted to show gratitude.

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Her dad who is usually the strong one couldn't find a job to provide for the family so her mom is doing all the work.

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She change by understanding what she judt did.

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She change by understanding what she judt did.

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Because her house old and run down and the town is full of dust and she remembers the bright orange and yellow flowers.

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Because her house old and run down and the town is full of dust and she remembers the bright orange and yellow flowers.

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So she thought they were out of place

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Because she is old and mad all the time

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they are beautiful flowers in front of an ugly house.

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they are beautiful flowers in front of an ugly house.

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they didn't want to see the marigolds any longer in the yard

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they didn't want to see the marigolds any longer in the yard

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She needed to release her emotion and thought the destroying the flowers would help her

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She needed to release her emotion and thought the destroying the flowers would help her

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the kids were bored so they decided to make a game out of  Miss Lottie's garden of marigolds, they annoy her .

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the kids were bored so they decided to make a game out of  Miss Lottie's garden of marigolds, they annoy her .

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They try to destroy them by throwing rocks at them