Keep a thought to oneself
Strange
To comfort someone
Excessive pride, often in one's appearance or status, usually equated with arrogance
To look with concentration at someone or something
A constant movement backwards and forwards
Moving hurriedly in quick short steps
The Question and Answer section for The Flowers is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Through "The Flowers," Alice Walker portrays the condition of African-American people. Many of them, such as Myop and her family, are sharecroppers—in other words, they are paid a very small amount of money to engage in back-breaking labor on...
Do you mean the "rose"?
Sorry, this is only a short-answer space. The short story takes place in the South after Reconstruction.
