Answer to Question #231446 in English for CCW

Question

8/19 - “The Flower Annotations”

1. Read “The Flower” by Alice Walker
2. Comment in margin on one aspect of the syntax that seems meaningful to the story

Answer 1

The aspect of the syntax that seems meaningful to the story is ordering of words. In the story, the author selectively picks the words that brings out the picture of Myop's encounter. She steps on his decaying face, lodging her foot in it. As if this were not gruesome enough, she notices his teeth have all been broken, and his head is separated from his body. This story's setting is during the summer on a sharecropper's farm, placing it after the American Civil War