Rhetorical Analysis of "The Monkey Garden"

The monkey garden has become overgrown and fascinating since the monkey who once lived there and the family who kept him moved to Kentucky. After the monkey left, the narrator and her friends made the garden their playground. Once the garden was abandoned, it began to take on a life of its own, which the children investigated in endless detail. Some of the discoveries were wonderful: "There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains" (386). The delights of the garden sparked her imagination and made her think of things familiar and unfamiliar: what life must be like on a mysterious planet like Mars, for instance, or how amazingly alive the curtains at the local movie theater could look if she stared hard enough.

Some discoveries were not so felicitous: "Weeds like so many squinty-eyed stars and brush that made your ankles itch and itch until you washed with soap and water" (386). She refers to the uncomfortable day she returned from the garden, appealing to her mother for help when the garden'

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Approximate Word count = 852
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)