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Short Story Essay

All humans go through a stage of maturity, some handle it better than others and it is caused and affected by many different situations like, poverty, location, age, or feelings. I think that all four stories, Marigolds, Visit to Grandmother, Summer of Truth and Flight all have to do with maturity. Both Marigolds and Flight have characters that face maturity, going from being immature to becoming mature. While Visit to Grandmother and Summer of Truth the characters are immature in the beginning of the story and by the end they don't end up changing for the better.
The story Marigolds and Flight have immature characters at the start of the short story but by the end they grow, change, and, most importantly, they mature. In Marigolds the character facing maturity is Lizabeth. At the beginning she is immature as shown in this quote "Â…the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being......

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