Eugenia Collier is a magnificent author who has written with perfect accuracy. The events of history, although some are fictional, have a truth that all history books share; hunger, emotional burdens, dust, poverty, etc. they were all real consequences of the Great Depression. The Great Depression severely affected thousands of people as no one had work and people went hungry, as in the case of a migrant mother named Florence Thompson. Florence had to take care of 5 children and had no husband, as seen in the photo. Both the story and the image depict the devastating effects of the Great Depression on an exaggerated scale of fact. In the Marigold stories we can clearly see all the positive and negative aspects of the Great Depression through the author's point of view. The author gives much emphasis to her youth and describes all the feelings and emotions she experienced in that period, an example is when she clearly states "Every time the memory of those marigolds crosses my mind, a strange nostalgia accompanies me and remains for long after the image has faded.” Eugenia uses many comparisons throughout the story in the form of similes, metaphors, etc. to describe the sadness, confusion, and joy he may have felt while still young and experiencing a whole new set of emotions that were there but unknown or confusing. For example: “I feel the chaotic emotions of adolescence, as illusory as smoking, yet as real as the potted geranium in front of me now.” Here the author uses a simile to describe her "chaotic emotions" that we all experience at some point in our lives by saying that she is "as illusory as smoke", meaning that she experiences emotions that "mock" her and are a mere illusion like smoke that finally vanishes. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay The image of Florence Thompson is sad, meaningful, and angry because of the terrible circumstances she faced alone with her five children. The image itself shows a worried mother with two of her children. If you analyze the physical clothing, Florence is really thin, her clothes are ragged and dirty, she has dirt stains in some parts of her body, and she seems to have a disease, which looks like the lower right part of her lip. Her children cling to their mother perhaps because they don't want her to go to work or perhaps because they miss her after a long day at work. If we look closely, the house they live in is small and in terrible condition, even the children are poorly dressed and dirty. The author of Marigolds and the painting in Florence have some particularities that they have in common. Eugenia says: “We children, of course, were only vaguely aware of the extent of our poverty. Having no radio, few newspapers and no magazines." If we look at the photo of Florence, both of her children have no comfort in their home; they don't have any kind of technology to entertain them and nothing to read to pass the time with. Eugenia further states: “In those days everyone we knew was as hungry and poorly dressed as we were. Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped...” if we look at the photo, Florence and her children suffer from hunger because Florence herself is very thin as are her children, you can even see Florence's chest bones if you look look closely. Eugenia takes all aspects of depression and turns them into an accurate historical account. One thing that I find interesting is that Eugenia states that she "reluctantly leaves her private world"; this expression can remind us once again of the photograph of Florence with.