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Myop is a 10-year-old Black girl who lives with her family in a sharecropper cabin in the South. As a pre-adolescent, she is near the point of transition from childhood to young adulthood. What’s more, her name resonates with the word “myopia,” which refers to nearsightedness and is perhaps a good metaphorical way to describe her at the ...
The air was damp, the silence close and deep. Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of the morning. It was then she stepped smack into his eyes. Her heel became lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free herself. It was only when she saw his naked grin that she ...
21 de nov. de 2023 · In Alice Walker's short story 'The Flowers,' the author tells the story of a 10-year-old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with the child happily exploring a forest.
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Several of Alice Walker’s novels and stories are set in the American South during the period before the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, which freed 4 million enslaved people. As “The Flowers” implies, the post-War practice of sharecropping perpetuated the economic oppression of newly freed Black Americans by keeping them in debt to exploitative white landowners.
254 books6,640 followers. Follow. Noted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as The Color Purple (1982). People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In 1983, this first African woman for fiction also received the national book award.
Short Summary. 'The Flowers' is a short story by Alice Walker that explores a young girl named Myop's time as a child ending when she discovers the body of a violently murdered man. This story's ...
