Name ______Period ______“Marigolds” Writing Assignment Questions

1. Why does Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie’s marigolds?

2. How does the climax of the story – Lizabeth’s decision to destroy the marigolds – begin a rite of passage from childhood to the beginning of womanhood?

3. Why does Miss Lottie never plant marigolds again, despite Lizabeth’s “wild contrition” – her sincere remorse?

4. What do you think the narrator means at the end of the story when she says that she too has planted marigolds?

5. What do you think is the best way to make it up to someone we have deliberately hurt? What should we do if that person does not forgive us?

6. The narrator says, “This was the beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence.” What do you think she means?

7. How did you react to Lizabeth’s destruction of the marigolds?

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