Narrator and point of view

The short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker is told by a third-person narrator, who adopts the main character’s point of view. Through this type of narration, readers get to understand what Myop sees and experiences:

It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these. The air held a keenness that made her nose twitch. The harvesting (…) caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws. (p. 107, ll. 1-5)

The narrator appears to have limited knowledge, as we are only told about Myop’s experiences as they take place. We also only see the landscape as Myop sees it. Since she is a child, she focuses on the good aspects and probably ignores or is not aware of any negative aspects, such as the poverty her family might live in. 

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