Marigolds
Storyboard Text
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- Rising Action
- The main character of the book marigolds lives in a poor neighborhood during the Great Depression, and the narrator describes it as a very depressing place except for Mrs. Lottie and her marigold flowers.
- Climax
- Lizabeth gets together with the neighborhood kids to make plans to destroy Miss Lottie's marigolds because they think they are in an ugly looking location.
- Falling Action
- They all walk over to Mrs. Lottie's home. The children begin to tease Ms. Lottie by throwing stones at her marigolds. Lizabeth did not join them.
- Resolution
- She destroyed Miss Lottie's marigolds before returning to the table and noticing her father sobbing. Because her father was regarded as a big, strong man, Lizabeth was confused as to why he had started to cry.
- Elizabeth sneaked out of the house during the night, her mind racing with confusion and fear as a result of the day's events. She went to Miss Lottie's house and began removing and destroying all of her marigolds and bushes. Elizabeth started crying, and her brother discovered her. Mrs. Lottie never planted again after that.
- After Mrs. Lottie passed away, the image of her passionate yellow mounds came back to her in a painfully poignant way. Lizabeth decided to plant marigolds because she had been unsettled for years.
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