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Throughout the story, Maya is discouraged by the segregation of the blacks in her community. Maya comes from a broken home, her parents divorced when she was young. Her and her brother Baily were sent to Stamps Arkansas to live with their paternal grandmother Annie Henderson at a young age. Beyond the family issues Maya had come face to face with ridicule, rape, and racism. This was a lot for a young girl and is the main reason that she has become more tolerant and matured much faster then most adolescents.
Maya is first faced with ridicule at a young age; she was not the prettiest girl. From the time she was young and through adolescence, Maya considered herself ugly. She was a tall, somewhat lanky African American girl. She was skinny, and felt that her eyes wer
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At the age of eight Maya and Baily moved to St. Maya had felt as if she had sold herself to the devil and the guilt was tremendous. ”
Maya decides to deal with this by getting fired. That the white community has some greater power over the black community. These children may not have known what racism was but they were brought up with these beliefs. She did not experience very much physical contact after the move to St. They other children are laughing at her because she can’t remember a poem. Cullinan's renaming was an assumption of the right to determine Maya's identity, so Angelou was furious with her. However, she also felt badly for Mr.
Throughout her life Maya had endured more then most women do. She remains kind and with unconditional respect. She felt that this little lie had caused someone’s death. Then the lawyer asks her a crucial question “Was this the first time the accused touched you?” referring to the rape.
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