Walker uses this story to showcase how children should be exposed to the past. In this case, the gruesome crimes against African-Americans in a post civil war society. By writing, “ as she picked [the pink rose] to add to her bundle she noticed a mound, a ring, around the rose’s root. It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil” (Walker, 120), the narrator explains that the man that Myop had accidentally stepped on was an African-American man who had been lynched, indicating that it was the very noose he had been hanged from…