The children messed with Miss Lottie's beautiful marigolds.
She lost hope
In the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier, the main events include Lizabeth destroying Miss Lottie's marigolds out of frustration, Lizabeth's realization of the harshness of reality and her empathy toward Miss Lottie, and the symbolic significance of the marigolds representing hope and beauty amid the poverty and despair of the characters.
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Lizabeth, her parents, Joey, Miss Lottie, John Burke
She is able to feel compassion for Miss Lottie.
The children are motivated to bother Miss Lottie because they cannot understand her seemingly purposeless act of tending to marigolds, which stand out as the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak and poverty-stricken environment. Their frustration at their own lack of control over their circumstances comes out in their actions towards Miss Lottie and her flowers.
cause shes an idiot, a ni#$er, and a les&*an
Eugenia Collier describes the setting of Marigolds and dusty and run down. Miss Lottie took great pride in her marigolds because they added a small amount of beauty to an otherwise ugly and dismal place.
they annoy her from always being loud and playing outsider her window i believe...its been a while
The turning point for Marigolds is when Lizbeth goes back to Ms. Lottie's garden and destroys what is left of the marigolds. It is then that she realizes what she has done. She has destroyed the only beautiful thing in Ms. Lottie's life.
the children are afraid of her cause her looks and they hate her cause she planted those marigolds which make their neighboor hood look less ugly :)