Walker uses Setting in the short story “the flowers” in order to situate the reader in a racist time period and to show how racism is majorly responsible for the loss of innocence in children of colour. The use of setting also contributes to exposing the awful living conditions of the time. This element of fiction adds value to the plot enhancing the moral of the story. The setting influences directly the reader's comprehension of why the man in the story would have wanted to kill himself. The author situates the reader at a time surrounding the 1870s, post civil war, within the first 3…