The Flowers: Is one’s childhood the world’s to steal?

Is one’s childhood the world’s to steal? The unjust robbery of a young girl’s historically innocent childhood and consequential trauma is auspiciously demonstrated in author Alice Walker’s short story titled “The Flowers,” with the use of calculated characterization. Walker fabricates a fictional story with a ten-year-old child named Myop as the inevitable victim to being faced with the harsh reality of what she previously thought to be a life filled with “keenness”(Walker 119) and “a golden surprise”(Walker 119). When Myop’s afternoon adventure turns into her treacherous discovery of a…