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as if she feels that by yelling her son’s faults and her goodness, she is trying to justify her own wrongfulness of beating her son. She chose to shout, so that everyone would hear, almost as if she was confessing her sins. She seems to be making a show, a production out of this beating. She is trying to humiliate her son even more by beating him outside, instead of inside the house. A simple, four- lined introduction creates a perfect image of the event that is unfolding.
In stanza two, the setting and the mother’s physical appearance is revealed in further detail. The setting is in front of the house in a garden of some sort, full of lush plants, greenery, and bright flowers. In contrast, the boy is being viciously thrown and beaten into this delicate foliage. “Wildly he crashes through elephant ears, / pleads in dusty zinnias” (5-6). Another symbolic image Hayden portrays is of the zinnias. Zinnias are typically supposed to be a plant with ...

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