explain how two stylistic features of The Flowers influenced your reading

Flowers, which are mentioned often in this story, are symbolic of Myop’s innocence. She is just ten years old, and at the beginning of the story, she is still a careless child, who likes running in the woods, playing in the yard, and singing songs. However, her innocence is as fleeting as a flower, and it ends on the day she finds a corpse and a noose.