This story, Flower Garden, was about a widow named Mrs. MacLane and her son who moved to a small town in Vermont. When they first got there, everyone was very nice and welcomed them to the town. The person that first welcomed her was Mrs. Winnings, and they became good friends. Everything was going good with Mrs. MacLane; people talked to her, she was starting her garden, her and Mrs. Winnings were best friends and spent a lot of time together, and she was really starting to fit in. Then one day, she talked to a black boy named Billy Jones, and offered for him to help her with her garden. The next day, Billy’s dad came over her house and started working on the garden. After that, people started acting differently towards Mrs. MacLane. They talked behind her back and wouldn’t have a conversation with her, and she didn’t know why. At the end of the story, even her close friend Mrs. Winnings didn’t talk to her because of what she did.
When the story ended, the two literary elements I thought of were person-against-society and person-against-self.
When Mrs, MacLane hired Mr. Jones, people started acting very differently towards her. The first sign of that was when Mrs. Winnings avoided her and didn’t let her son play with Davey. Soon after, everyone was talking about it behind her back. The only reason they did this was because of the decision she made to hire Mr. Jones. Everyone judged her like this because of what society thinks.
After Mrs. MacLane made the decision to hire Mr. Jones, the person that changed the way they acted the most was Mrs. Winnings. Instead of going everywhere with her and talking, she avoided Mrs. MacLane’s house and almost never talked her. She also didn’t let her son go over and play with Davey. Mrs. Winnings would tell herself to go to talk to her about the issue and do something about it, but she never listened and didn’t do anything. This went on for a while until Mrs. MacLane decided to confront her about it. This was the perfect time for Mrs. Winnings to say what she had wanted to say that whole time, but all she did was deny everything Mrs. MacLane said about people acting differently towards her. She left without a change in their friendship. And by the end of the book, Mrs. Winning decided not to be her friend at all because of her choice.
This story was very interesting and made me think a lot about friendship and how society influences it.
Nice work, Jessie! You identified the conflict, supported your ideas with evidence, and summarzied the story.
ReplyDelete4.75/5 points. You have one technical error. In the first paragraph you write, "her and Mrs. Winnings". Instead, you need to say, "She and Mrs. Winnings".