The Botany Of Desire Chapter Summaries

Poverty is a major issue in today’s world. Not only does it hurt families, but it can create a feeling of hopelessness. Lizabeth, from “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, knows just what it feels like to be hopeless. In the story, Lizabeth’s family struggles with poverty. Through this struggle, Lizabeth learns a very important lesson about finding hope in her life. Symbolism, characters, and setting help to illustrate the theme of the story; that hope can be found in everything, even the tough times in life.

One might ask how the scientific facts of the functional purpose of a plant would connect to a literary piece, especially the well-known play, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry. The plant in the text symbolizes the foundation for the family, honest hope, and Mama's dreams. Symbolism is not a definition of an item, but represents something specific other than itself. Much like Mama's plant, it represents many meaningful ideas with supportive evidence throughout the text. The plant standing alone may seem like a generic addition to the setting of the Younger household, but when it is observed in a deeper analytical approach; the symbolism of it in itself holds such

One of the most pervasive themes in this passage is that of a spreading decay that is taking over the society. This is first expressed in quite a literal sense, as an actual decay of fruit and produce, which spreads like a virus across the American countryside and farming lands. Due to the economic mismanagement of the farming industry, fruit and other produce are left to rot and decay on the trees because they are not picked by the farmers. The text gives many examples of different fruits being left to decay on the farms. We see, for example, the cherries, that are described at first as “full and sweet”, being left to turn into seeds which “drop and dry with black shreds hanging from them”. The purple prunes, which now “carpet the

apples and some of which were shaped like eggs, some were small and others were large."

Marigolds have always been her favorite flower. They reminded her of the stages she onced performed on. Staff members would decorate the stage with summer-bloomed dahlias and bright sun-colored marigolds, and tie silk ribbons to the bark of trees during celebrations. Crowds were surrounding her, cheering and watching her gracefully move her body across the stage. The light hue of her pink hair shined as the sunlight struck her like a spotlight center stage. She wore a pure white, flowing dancer’s garment which allowed her to move the way she wanted to. Her arms would stretch out as if she was reaching for someone’s palm, and her legs move as if they were made of the wind. Sometimes, there was a special someone; a pair of eyes that could see through the heart of her dance,

Every garden has their own purposes that make gardeners devote a great amount of time to take care of them. Gardeners are coming up with their own unique ways of taking care of their gardens, especially when they make profits out of it. In his book, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan claims the best gardeners of his generation have devoted themselves to growing cannabis, popularly known as marijuana. Intrigued with Pollan’s argument, I completely agree with him. Marijuana growers are the best gardeners because they perfected the plant in growing them indoors, they make good business out of it, and the plant itself fills the need of humans for transcendent altered states of consciousness.

A World Filled With Dust The Dust Bowl was one of the worst environmental disasters of the twentieth century anywhere in the world. The Great Plains area was largely affected and forced most to migrate West. The novel Out of the Dust takes place in a city called Joyce City, which is located in the panhandle of Oklahoma.

William had known that it was Melinda’s land, but as soon the the innocent boy laid eyes on the apples he couldn’t help himself. He dashed through the field, and into the apple grove. Immediately, William began pulling apples off the tree, and devouring them.

The apple sits on a white plate. The plate has the words ‘For You’ on it. The plate was something I added to the poem. Since the narrator’s enemy knew that the apple belonged to the narrator, the plate shows that the narrator was ready for his enemy to take the apple. The words inscribed on the plate are used to appeal to the enemy to guarantee that he eats the poison. The words are written in black to magnify the toxicity of the narrator’s hatred for their foe. The plate is white to appeal to the enemy. White signifies innocence, purity, and peace. When the enemy sees the plate, they would not guess that it is holding a lethal apple. The grass covers some of the plate up to make the painting more realistic. Grass would naturally get onto the

In this research paper, we will be discussing one specific herb, Marijuana, as there are many misconceptions around it rendering it illegal, and we will attempt to argue with its unfounded illegality. What is Marijuana? Where, how and why is it consumed? What are recurrent misconceptions? First, we will be talking about the origins of the plant and where it is mainly found and grown, then we’ll be discussing the various uses for it and its effects on consumers, to finish off with its legality and position in today’s

In addition, Washington produces about seventy percent of apples in the United States. Which that it also provided 160,000 jobs for people and contributes thirteen percent to state’s economy. Also it helped the country economy as well. However, with all the apple that were harvested. It produces over 100 million boxes per year and more thank $15 billion in food and agricultural

The word apple comes from the latin word pomum. which means fruit in general. Then known as pome because of it's tiny seeds. Before Christianity became the mainstream religion of the roman empire, apple was malum in latin which means melon. However after Christianity became the dominate religion, Apple became the Fruit of the fruit. Mainly because of the story of Adams and Eves. Nobody know why the fruit Adam was tempted with wasn't a kiwi. Why the gardan of Eden didn't grow pears. The tree of knowledge simply grew apples. Therefore apples have a great significant in Christianity.

Here’s another heroic reason why the apple is the most beneficial fruit in the world; it is now proven that asthma symptoms can be lowered by eating the phenomenal apple. In a study by UK researchers in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, that adults who are to eat a minimum of two apples a week their asthma risk reduced by one third. A new study which further explains in Thorax, that mothers who ate apples during pregnancy were 27% less likely to have their child suffer from asthma or asthma symptoms until they were five years of age. This happens for a couple of reasons, firstly because an apple’s peel (especially the red ones) contain a lot of antioxidants which help fight against inflammations in the airways. Also

The speaker then goes on to say that “For all that struck the earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, went surely to the cider-apple heap as of no worth” (33-36). The bruises on the fruit represent the mistakes or misused chances, maybe even failure, but the fact that these bruised apples considered worthless and discarded seems to be an epiphany to the speaker. He is realizes that while these apples were bruised, cider still came from them. The discarded apples act as metaphors for all of the mistakes that he has made in his life, and he now understands that they are in fact not worthless, as much knowledge can be gained from examining one’s mistakes.

Apple originated from Central Asia and reached Europe via the Silk Road thousands of years ago. Although it is now cultivated worldwide as a kind of common fruit, the term ‘apple’ itself is relatively special in some cultures due to its religious and mythological meanings. This essay will briefly talk about the role of apple in some cultures from language aspects.