Personal Connections

1. In the second paragraph, Collier wrote that she remembers Marigolds at the most strangest times. I occasionally remember things that were a huge shock or delight to me in the most random/special events.
2. Also in the second paragraph, Collier says that she and the other African Americans were waiting for the prosperity which would come soon, even though they knew it wasn't true. I tend to think every other commercials such as cooking machines or skin solutions really work as they do in TV when I know that those are all exaggerations.
3. Collier describes in the fourth paragraph about a zoo-bred famingo who doesn't know how to fly. Everywhere I move to, I meet quite a few people that waste their talents without knowing how much they can accomplish more by applying those gifts.
4. In pg. 78, the author wrote that she and her friend were wore out from having nothing to do. This occurs to me too often. I wait and hope for an easy day with no work, but when I reach there, I get more fatigued and even frustrated with having no plan whatsoever.
5. Collier provides us an information about how the narrator's emotions changed when she thought of Miss Lottie. When I think about something that I believe is wrong or sick, I have a foreboding feeling that makes my mind go blurr, gaunt, and for some reason, offended.
6. Collier tells us how she felt whenever she saw the marigolds in Miss Lottie's lawn. Everytime I come face to face with occasions or observe situations that has a flaw in the whole nice scene, I begin to think negatively because of that tiny scar. Vice versa, when I see a ruined painting with a minor good left, I become in contact with a strange expectation wishing that insignificance will purify the ruined.
7. The writer says that she felt two feelings one after the other(child & woman). Few, but meaningful experiences have taught me to not only think about my view. When I view everything from my aspect whenever I have a conflict or argue with another person, I fit and mix things around to make it seem right to me. But when I visualize it from the other person's view, I realize that all the mixing and fitting stuffs make it even more nonsense that it was before.
8. Collier told us in the text about Lizabeth listening to the conversation her parents had. I often think like Lizabeth's mother, thinking and wanting to see only the okay parts and avoid to think about the shadow that lies within the lightened.
9. At the very first sentence in pg. 83, Lizabeth is confuse because she doesn't know where she should fit in her family picture. It's unusual, but I get totally lost when it seems like I don't fit in a specific event, like an alien.
10. Collier describes the rush of emotions that narrator felt in the climax of the story. I also say and do things which aren't what I mean when I'm pissed or become challenged knowing it's not right and that I'm going to regret it.
11. At the very last paragraph, Colliers describes the resolution of the story and Lizabeth's future, like planting marigolds. Whenever I commit something faulty, once in a while I leave a symbol reminding me the wrongs I've committed to help me prevent doing things like that ever again.