In the short story “The Flowers” written by Alice Walker, it emphasizes a lot about the theme of overcoming fear. The meaning of this theme is successfully dealing with a situation and controlling it. At the beginning of the story, it illustrates how Myop is very comfortable in her surroundings, in this case, in the woods. “Today she made her own path, bouncing this way and that way, vaguely keeping her eye out for snakes” (Walker 119-120). She felt very safe in her environment and nothing was a worry. The story also shows how courageous and heroic she is: “Her heel became lodged in the…