2. What is Setting?
• Setting includes to place, weather, time of day
and time period.
• It can also include details about characters
customs and background information.
3. Some important details about setting in the
story
• The family lives in a poor and ugly neighborhood of Maryland.
• The father of Lizabeth lost his job and all the biggest brothers
of Lizabeth are in the city or are married.
• Now the family lives only with the money that the mother
earn and they have to give the little children to familiars
because they can’t take care of them.
4. Influence of setting
• One of the principal influences is that the story took
place in the time of Great Depression.
• The family of Lizabeth lived in the poor
neighborhood and they were especially affected by
the crisis.
5. The Mood in MARIGOLDS
• In the beginning of the story the mood is nostalgic as Lizabeth
says, “I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence,
illusive as smoke”
• In the middle and at the end of the story the mood is full of
sadness and repentance for the destruction of Miss. Lottie’s
marigolds.
6. The foreshadows of the story
• We understand that Lizabeth is going to lose
her innocence when she says, “Something old
and familiar was ending, and something
unknown and therefore terrifying was
beginning”
7. Conclusion
• The story takes place in a poor neighborhood
of Maryland.
• This influences the story because Lizabeth is
becoming a woman and she doesn’t want to
live in poverty all her life.
