Questions on Marigolds

• Why does Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie's flowers?
• She Did it because everyone else was doing it.She was a follower and not a leader and she was conceived into doing it.
• How does the climax of the story begin a rite of passage from childhood to the beginning of womanhood?
• Because After the climax,The character(Lizabeth)See's the person (Miss Lottie)Suffer for something that was here fault.So then she learns whats Right and whats wrong.
• Why does Miss Lottie never plant marigolds again, despite Lizabeth's remorse?
• She was afraid that the other kids will destroy them again