Marigolds (short story)

Which details help you understand the time place and story? What do these details suggest about what might be important to the theme?

Which details help you understand the time place and story? What do these details suggest about what might be important to the theme?

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“dust of late summer”

“the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community”

“dry September of dirt roads and grassless yards of the shanty-town where I lived”

These details help us to understand the hopelessness of the narrator's situation.

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Marigolds