1. Maturity
1.1. maturity is important to growing up in a difficult situation, Like in marigolds she still feels the pain, but gets through.
1.1.1. "despite my wild contrition she never planted marigolds again. Yet, there are times when the image of those passionate yellow mounds returns with a painful poignancy."
1.1.2. "We were far too sophisticated now, of course, to believe the witch nonsense. But old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs"
1.2. Maturity is taking a difficult experience and turning it into something of benefit.
1.2.1. "as I recall that devastating moment when I was suddenly more woman than child"
2. Childhood
2.1. Childhood is a key role in your behavior and future. The whole story literally is about her childhood
2.1.1. " I was still child enough to scamper along with the group over rickety fences and through bushes that tore our already raggedy clothes, back to where Miss Lottie lived."
2.2. Childhood tells more then just a story, it tells you the reality of the thing your in or will be in the future.
2.2.1. "I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood."
3. Feeling
3.1. Feeling is something that turns something into an experience.
3.1.1. "it does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel. And so, when I think of that time and that place, I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grass less yards of the shantytown where I lived."
3.2. Feeling gives you a better memory of something.
3.2.1. "arid, sterile,dust that gets into the throat. and in between toes of feet"
4. Deppression
4.1. Depression Is a hard and difficult thing that must be dealt with and be overcome.
4.1.1. "Damn, Maybelle”—and suddenly he sobbed, loudly and painfully, and cried helplessly and hopelessly in the dark night. I had never heard a man cry before. I did not know men ever cried."
4.2. Depression is something to live with rather then bash yourself for. It is something to get used to.
4.2.1. "The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us"