Read the passage below from “Marigolds” and answer the question.

I had indeed lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst—the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.

Based on the passage above, which of the following themes are evident in the story?

-loss of innocence
-good overcomes evil
-value of family
-love and sacrifice

Right now, Lizabeth is going through a whole bunch of emotions and doesn't know what to think. She tore through Miss Lottie's marigolds, which her sign of joy and the light in the dark, and after doing this action, she feels really bad. After, she finally determines what it means to be a child and a woman, how a child acts and how a woman acts, the different responsibilities and how each thinks.