1. nostalgia
1.1. The author show that when you see an item or thing from when you were a child or teenager, can cause nostalgia
1.1.1. "Whenever the memory of those marigolds flashes across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it"
1.2. The author shows that thinking about your past and your actions from the past. become memories that shape into nostalgia.
1.2.1. "The entire story obviously"
2. sadness
2.1. When someone that you know or is part your family cries you feel like it's your fault for not helping them causing you to feel sad.
2.1.1. I had never heard a man cry before. I did not know men ever cried. I covered my ears with my hands but could not cut off the sound
2.2. After causing problems and thinking over them. It's can come to your mind that you did something awful. Which cause you to feel sad or lash out.
2.2.1. For as I gazed at the immobile face with the sad, weary eyes, I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood.
3. compassion
3.1. It shows seeing someone you care can make you do things for them.
3.1.1. Where did I fit into this crazy picture? I do not now remember my thoughts, only a feeling of great bewilderment and fear.
3.2. seeing you family going to bad times make you do things to help them
3.2.1. The world had lost its boundary lines. My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built,
4. Anger
4.1. Seeing something that you don't like or just dislike can make you feel angry or hatred toward that thing.
4.1.1. For some perverse reason, we children hated those marigolds. They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful
4.2. building up your anger, your sadness, can make you do things, that can be awful.
4.2.1. I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms.
5. maturity
5.1. Maturity can come out of nowhere, especially if something awful happens to you.
5.1.1. that was the moment when childhood faded and womanhood began. That violent, crazy act was the last act of childhood.
5.2. maturity can come with a price of losing everything you love and care about
6. regret
6.1. Doing something awful can stay with you for you're whole life
6.1.1. The years have taken me worlds away from that time and that place, from the dust and squalor of our lives,
6.2. Regret can start from anything or anytime
6.2.1. The years have put words to the things I knew in that moment, and as I look back upon it, I know that that moment marked the end of innocence.