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northcoraline's review
5.0
Wow..
This is just so beautiful and so bruised. It's a coming of age short story that sheds the light on how ugly the world really is. Themes like losing innocence, racism and lynching are easily picked and portrayed. Little Myop saw the brutality of the world and how sickening it is and instead of running back afraid,
This is just so beautiful and so bruised. It's a coming of age short story that sheds the light on how ugly the world really is. Themes like losing innocence, racism and lynching are easily picked and portrayed. Little Myop saw the brutality of the world and how sickening it is and instead of running back afraid,
"Myop laid down her flowers.
And the summer was over."
milfmarner's review
challenging
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
adholmes3's review
dark
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
agirlnamedomi's review
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
littlemountainchicken's review
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
readereaterr's review
5.0
I re-read this story after having read it last year. I felt like I was finally seeing the piece with clear eyes and I am impressed by Walker’s ability to craft a work so multi-layered.
sophiedoes's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I read this for a university class and really liked it. I don’t want to spoil it but I will highly encourage you to take the dive and read it if you have not all ready.
superal's review
5.0
When we are taught about the history of the United States, we only discuss the past 400 years and don’t even show the whole picture because we remove the details that give the image a precise meaning. Countless voices are being erased, and face continued oppression simply because they do not fit the white narrative of the American dream. The dream is that everyone has equal opportunity, everyone has rights, and everyone is free. Yet these statements have been continuedly disproven for the past 400 years. The men that wrote the words “all men are equal under God” were white men that put price tags on people and sold them as farm animals. These practices continue to spread the idea that humans were considered human or less than others because of a physical difference in skin pigmentation. The violence and hate sown into this country have left people divided, and many denied a voice.
Even in the contemporary world, these racial biases still run deep among Americans. Despite the severe attempt from white people in power to erase the actions of the past, people like Alice Walker chose to use their talents to express what life was truly like for those that lived in marginalized communities whose stories were ignored. To combat this, artists like Walker wrote stories like The Flowers to highlight the forgotten souls whose lives were taken away simply because of a physical difference.
As unsettling as this story is, it is undeniable that these stories must be preserved. Countless people had to suffer because people wanted to be cruel. Many white people have the misconception that racism disappeared after the Civil War in terms of a grand scale. Unfortunately, little progress has been made to create equal workspaces to hire the best candidate or even the rampant and disproportionate poverty rate in African-American communities. There was a time when unchecked violence that white citizens committed against black communities. White men could take the law into their own hands if they felt that a black person had “wronged” them or someone they knew. In the case of Emmit Till, a child was murdered because a white lady said he whistled at her. Emmit’s case was one of the few widely publicized cases to move the Civil Rights Movement. In this story, Walker reflects on the men and women who were murdered because of “white justice” and that the authorities will never correctly identify those victims. There would have been no official police report as the officers would have been white, and they would not have cared to bring the people in for justice.
We will never know why that person in the woods was murdered or who murdered him. All that is left is the fear of a little girl who has just lost her innocence as she must now confront the kind of world she lives in and how she will survive.
Alice provides a story that will spark much needed discussions on the aspects of the American heritage and reckoning with the sins of the past.
Even in the contemporary world, these racial biases still run deep among Americans. Despite the severe attempt from white people in power to erase the actions of the past, people like Alice Walker chose to use their talents to express what life was truly like for those that lived in marginalized communities whose stories were ignored. To combat this, artists like Walker wrote stories like The Flowers to highlight the forgotten souls whose lives were taken away simply because of a physical difference.
As unsettling as this story is, it is undeniable that these stories must be preserved. Countless people had to suffer because people wanted to be cruel. Many white people have the misconception that racism disappeared after the Civil War in terms of a grand scale. Unfortunately, little progress has been made to create equal workspaces to hire the best candidate or even the rampant and disproportionate poverty rate in African-American communities. There was a time when unchecked violence that white citizens committed against black communities. White men could take the law into their own hands if they felt that a black person had “wronged” them or someone they knew. In the case of Emmit Till, a child was murdered because a white lady said he whistled at her. Emmit’s case was one of the few widely publicized cases to move the Civil Rights Movement. In this story, Walker reflects on the men and women who were murdered because of “white justice” and that the authorities will never correctly identify those victims. There would have been no official police report as the officers would have been white, and they would not have cared to bring the people in for justice.
We will never know why that person in the woods was murdered or who murdered him. All that is left is the fear of a little girl who has just lost her innocence as she must now confront the kind of world she lives in and how she will survive.
Alice provides a story that will spark much needed discussions on the aspects of the American heritage and reckoning with the sins of the past.
markwillnevercry's review
3.25
First time I read this short story, I was supposed to write an essay to pass into the education, that I am in now. I do not quite remember what I wrote there, but I remember thinking that the blue flowers are forget me nots and that the summer refered to innocence of Myop.
This is a pretty interesting short novel, even tho it is a bit violent.
This is a pretty interesting short novel, even tho it is a bit violent.