The book The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is about a girl named Victoria and her life as she is at the age to marry. Victoria puts everyone she knows before herself. She is an orphan without parents, and has been moving from foster home to foster home her whole life. She thinks she brings hate, and a cursed life along with her. She meets many new people, and creates a new bond with them. She meets Elizabeth who is like a mother figure and a friend to her. She meets Grant who becomes very close with, and evidently become lovers. Victoria has never settled in a place, she has moved from place to place a number of times. She went to court because apparently she lit a fire in the house she was staying at. She was forced to go to court because of her lawyers. She ended up running away because she didn't want to hurt anyone especially Elizabeth, because at the time Elizabeth was her caretaker, and Elizabeth would get blamed for everything that Victoria did. Before the case started Victoria ran away. She later turned herself in without anyone knowing and went to jail. When she was in jail She tried writing to Elizabeth when she was in jail to apologize for what she did. She used up so many papers but none of them were going into her letter. They were all drafts of what she was going to write, and in the end her letter ended up being one sentence. Later on when she got out of jail she lived with Elizabeth and got pregnant with Grants baby. She was oblivious to the fact that she was pregnant, but she was vomiting up in the morning in the shower until the drain was clogged. She tried to keep the fact that she was vomiting a secret until one of her roommates told her she was pregnant. She herself didn't know and when her roommate told her she tried keeping it a secret from everyone including Grant. Once she started to started to avoid and start to disappear from the lives of the people that were close to her. Once her baby was born she gave the baby to the baby's father and left. Life is like a rose, There will the beautiful times as well as the rough thorny times. The thorns of a thorn make it whole, but plucking the thorns off and only revealing the the beautiful is never perfect. Victoria thought of herself as the thorns thus making her the problem. When removing the thorns the rose is now beautiful, When removing her the lives of the people around her now makes their lives beautiful and perfect, but what she didn't realize was without her her loved ones didn't like it. They wanted her back. They wanted the thorns back.
Victoria leaves the ones she loves because she thinks she's doing what's best for them. “An hour later I reached for my last paper. Balled attempts littered the room all around me. This one no matter what would have to do. The pressure of the final sheet made my hand shake even more, and my handwriting looked of that of a young child, unsure of the shape of each letter…. still, I continued slowly, purposefully finally I succeeded in the thing out a single line. ‘I lit the fire. I'm sorry I've never been more sorry”. Victoria was never proud of herself for what she did, but she was always afraid of telling the truth. It's not right to lie, but when she kept her mouth shut she was either lying or telling the truth but all this caught up to her. She felt ashamed for what she did and tried to run away. She turned herself in because she didn't want to be a nuisance to the people around. Victoria left her baby with the father and she ran away from their lives. She didn't want to become an obstacle for her child or for anyone around her. That's just she thought. Victoria was going to make their lives easier if she wasn't there. She was the type never to settle in a place. I think she did that because she thought she never belonged. Although she thought that everyone wanted her in their lives. Grant named their child Hazel because her name meant reconciliation, and he thought that hazel would bring Victoria back to him. In the end Victoria has thanksgiving dinner with her child for the first time with Grant and Elizabeth.
In conclusion, Victoria thought she was the problem when she wasn't. She's like the thorns on a rose. The rose is a beautiful flower, and is thought of like that once its thorns are plucked. Her life is like a rose. It had its ups and downs. She thought she was the problem and by removing her everything will be perfect. The only flaw was everyone wanted the “problem”. Life is like a rose. People have their thorny times and their rosy times. Life isn't perfect, It can't be the rose that will stay in bloom forever. The flower bloom with the rose. The thorns help make the flower perfect, but are plucked off because they are an imperfection of the flower. People shouldn't look down on life. Life isn't perfect. We can't have the picture perfect life or the the life we want. Those times we don't like are like those thorns but the more you climb something better will come up. We eventually find the beautiful rose, but that doesn't last forever there are more thorny times. Those rough times make your life whole. People's struggles help them become better people. Without those rough times people would know what that rose or happiness is. There will be thorny times as well as rosy ones.
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