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• Choose a character who experiences both internal and external conflict. Explain what the conflicts are, how they are created, and the effect that they have on both the character and the story. Additionally, include who or what the antagonist is and the effect that he/she/it has on the story.

 In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W.Collier Lizabeth the main character suffers internal conflicts as well as external conflicts. The internal conflict she faced was her not being completely a child nor completely a woman as she said in the story “the bewilderment of being neither child nor women and yet both at once”. She struggled with feeling innocents and feeling regret at the same time. Lizbeth still feels like a child because of the way she runs around and plays with her brother and the neighborhood children also because she doesn’t feel much towards her actions. While she also feels like a woman because she regrets what she has done afterwards. She soon comes to a breaking point between the two when destroying Miss Lottie’s flower patch of marigolds due to both her internal conflict and her external conflict. During the time when she has to face being a child or a woman she also faces a break in her family known as the external conflict. She overhears her mother and father talking about how her father is not in work and her mother has been supporting them as her father cries about it. Her father not being stabil affects her feeling towards how she sees her family now, while she use to see her father as a strong individual knowing he’s crying makes her feel as if her family is crumbling to pieces before her eyes. Later on in the story when she has grown up Miss Lottie the antagonist has never planted any more marigolds after Lizabeth had destroyed them making Lizabeth feel regret towards her actions later on. Soon Miss Lottie passes away and makes Lizabeth feel even more regret resulting in Lizabeth planting marigolds just like Miss Lottie did.