Lucy

The daffodils in Lucy show the different views that two people can have. Mariah loves daffodils, they are her favorite flower and a reminder of Spring. Lucy, on the other hand, hates them. They remind her of a poem she had to recite many years ago about this flower she had never seen. On page 29 Lucy says, "I did not know what these flowers were, and so it was a mystery to me why I wanted to kill them." Even though she did not know what these flowers were they reminded her of her past and hated them from first glance. Mariah knows about her poem and hatred of daffodils but wants her to find them lovely. The different opinions of Mariah and Lucy stem from their very different pasts: "...where she saw beautiful flowers I saw sorrow and bitterness. The same thing could cause us to shed tears, but those tears would not taste the same." I think this is an important line in the first part of this novel. It shows their two different perspectives on life. It is so true how something can cause very different reactions by two people. The place one comes from has this impact and shapes the experiences we have. Can anyone think of a time when this happened to them? Had a different reaction to the same thing?