Show:
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Reading 1
Reading 2
Reading 3
100
moving or touching
poignant
100
What is perverse?
What is stubbornly contrary, wrong, or harmful?
100
Who is the narrator?
Who is Lizabeth
100
What the name of the lady who tends to her garden of marigolds?
Who is Miss Lottie
100
Who is Ms. Lottie's son.
Who is John Burke?
200
retribution
What is something given in repayment, usually given in punishment
200
What is lacking strength or vigor?
impotent
200
What is the object the kids throw at the mairgolds?
What are stones/rocks?
200
What is the time period that "Marigolds" is set in?
What is the Great Depression
200
What is the point of view from which the story is told?
What is first person.
300
bravado
What is a false show of bravery
300
exuberance
What is unrestrained joy?
300
What is the incident that motivated Lizabeth to destroy the marigolds?
What is the conversation between her parents/her father crying.
300
What is Lizabeth's brother's name?
What us Joey.
300
What is the example of bravado when Lizabeth taunts Ms. Lottie?
What is spitting and cursing.
400
stoicism
What is a lack of visible emotion?
400
What is the condition of being brought to a lower level or humiliated?
degradation
400
Who is the character that encourages Lizabeth to stop tearing up the marigolds?
Who is her brother, Joey.
400

What is the climax/turning point of the story?

When Lizabeth rips out the marigolds and regrets it.

400
What is the reaction of John Burke when the children taunt him?
What is becoming angry and scaring the children.
500
apparent or supposed
What is ostensible?
500
squalor
What is a shabby condition, as from poverty?
500
What do the marigolds symbolize?
Beauty.
500
What is the event that marked the end of Lizabeth's innocence?
What is the destruction of the marigolds.
500
What is the theme of this story?
beauty can be found in ugliness, childhood doesn't last forever, ...