Flowers by Alice Walker, wasn't exactly what I was thinking it was going to be, very interesting how the story at first is so descriptive of a beautiful area, and of a time that is supposed to be nice, and then the ending of the story being very descriptive of a gentleman that had been hung, it really surprised me while reading this short story because it did come out of no where. I guess the setting would be easy 20th century and this is related to a hate crime. Also I liked how at the end she picked up a strange pink rose, but then after a moment laid down her flowers, to symbolize how she was no longer innocent and then the summer was over...
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, to me was about a mother teaching her daughter how to be a lady, she is showing her daughter things that she either was shown growing up or had to learn by experiences. she wants her daughter to be both brains and beauty but doesn't want her daughter to become a "slut." I believe more parents these days should teach their daughters this kind of thing, not because I'm sexiest but because I am a guy and see what girls do... my favorite line was the after asking what she should do if the baker won't let her feel the bread and the mother replies with "you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?" to me that was hilarious, because so many times my parents talk and talk and talk then i would have a response and i guess they would feel like i wasn't listening to everything and that was the last thing i heard. So i just found that response pretty amusing.
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