Flowers of Innocence

The innocence of children represents the main theme in Alice Walker’s short story. Alice Walker’s short story, “The Flowers,” relates the innocence of a young girl. This young girl, Myop, encounters a personal change within herself while picking flowers in the woods. Alice Walker uses the flowers to symbolize the innocence that Myop will eventually lose.
As Myop begins her adventure, she happily makes her “own path” (73). This path leads her to new flowers that she has not seen before. Walker describes the flowers as “an armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and sweet-suds bush full of the brown fragrant buds” (73). The new flowers symbolize that things are good without any troubles. Walker uses this s...