“Words have a power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality...” -Edgar Allan Poe. Short stories have a certain language that stirs up emotion. Stories don’t tell they show. The audience sees a portrait, feeling the conflict, and become more involved with the story. “The Flowers” is an example of one short story that includes the realization of the harsh racial violence we live in. Short stories have the power to communicate the most important concerns of the human heart through imagery and theme.
“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is filled with descriptions and details, and contain a deep message of loss of innocence. One way that Walker emphasizes that message is through imagery. "She found, in addition to various…show more content… Though one may say "The Scarlet Ibis" and "The Fog Horn" appeals to the heart through symbolism. The narrator Brother conflicts with himself whether he should leave Doodle in the storm. "I lay there-crying, sheltering my fallen Ibis from heresy of rain (11)." "The Scarlet Ibis" explores the conflict between love and pride in Brothers relationship with his physical and mentally disabled brother, Doodle. Brother's pride leads to a horrible outcome, killing Doodle. A monster is rumored to sit alone in the depths of the lonely ocean and responds to the call of the Fog Horn. "And set up their Fog Horn and sound it out towards the place where you bury yourself in sleep and sea memories of a world where there were thousands like yourself, but now you're alone, all alone in a world that's not made for you, a world where you have to hide (3)." In "The Fog Horn" companionship is key. There is a natural need of one another, but it's difficult when in extended isolation. Bradbury's tale about a monster traveling for an entire year to just to communicate with the fog horn makes us empathize, though it's nothing like a human. The empathy shows how necessary the need for communication is to human
