We are introduced to the main characters, Joey and Lizabeth. We learn that they are living in poverty and there is a lot of discrimination.
Lizabeth and some of the kids like to have fun annoying Miss Lottie by atttacking her Marrigold Garden
Rising Action 1
Rising Action 2
Lizabeth learns that life isn't as it seems, she eavdrops on her dad crying and her mother trying to confort him. But this event leads her to enter a state of emotional confussion and she starts to see reality as it is, and her families condition due to the poverty.
Climax
Because Lizabeth was confused, angry, and sad, she decided to let out her emotions by destroying Miss Lottie's Marigolds but she had taken it too far.
Falling Action
Lizabeth realizes her mistaik and sees that what she did was not right as she destroyed hope and hardwork of another person.
As Time passes and we see a grown up Lizabeth, she is a lot more mature from learning from her past mistakes and in memory of Miss Lottie she also planted Marigolds.