Key Ideas and Details: What can you infer from the text as to Lizabeth’s reasons for her final act of destruction?
The narrator describes in detail all of the emotions that make her feel as if she has lost her mind: need, hopelessness, bewilderment, and fear. These overwhelming emotions make her want to destroy something, anything. Her choice of the marigolds is perhaps not a conscious rejection of their symbolic hope, but it is an act of desperate hopelessness nonetheless.
7. Craft and Structure: How does the author use juxtaposition to show how Lizabeth has changed through her experience?
Juxtaposition occurs when Lizabeth describes Miss Lottie through the adult eyes of compassion and understanding, no longer seeing her as a witch but
as a broken woman who nevertheless still fought to keep some beauty and dignity in her life. This new mature and realistic view of Miss Lottie, tinged with compassion and understanding, makes clear how Lizabeth has left childish ways behind and become a woman.
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