In the short story written by Alice Walker readers learn that the loss of innocence and harsh awakenings that people experience in their lives can happen very quickly. One citation found in the text that can relate to the setting and demonstrates the main theme of the story is “In addition, she picked a sweet bush full of the brown fragrant buds… it was then she smacked straight into his eyes… very near where she stepped into the head was a wild pink rose, as she picked it and added it to her bundle she noticed a ring around the rose's root. It was the rotted remains of a noose…Myop laid…