What element of American history must readers know to appreciate the ending and overall impact of Alice Walker’s short short sto

ry "The Flowers"?
the prevalence of mob violence directed at African Americans between 1880 and 1940


the difficulty that sharecroppers had providing for a large family or improving their lives


the efforts of the federal government to help the South recover after the Civil War


the ways in which young girls were taught to behave in the early 1900s