Two works of African American women’s literature are Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and‚ Maya Angelou’s‚ "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Both stories give example to an oppressed character and the difficulties of their lives. Through description of character‚ language and their surroundings they tell that adventure. As well as these two works‚ “What to a Slave is the fourth of July‚” also shares a special connection to the literary works. These connections include the story
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ignorance. The earth sings songs of beauty‚ offering rest to humanity‚ and humanities pride spits a broken hatred. The conflict is ugly and unfair to people and nature‚ but it shouldn’t have to ever be this way. Angelou describes this conflict in such a way that it stirs your mind and drives her readers to respond. Angelou proceeds to point out a war between people. She speaks of race‚ religion‚ sexual preferences‚ the rich‚ the needy and the teacher. That every human knows of the love that nature
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profound ability to transcribe words like a rose growing out from concrete. Maya Angelou‚ the author of “Graduation”‚ and Alice Walker‚ author of “Beauty”‚ are two teenage girls growing up in the segregated south with similar struggles. The two essays by Angelou and Walker are about the harsh realities each encounters through racism‚ and how they each overcome hardships when the odds are stacked against them. Angelou and Walker both articulately narrate their life experiences with similar descriptions
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Jesse Evans LS-ENG 0810 17 October 2013 Summary Response Summary Response of Maya Angelou’s “The Graduation” In the essay “The Graduation” (McGraw-Hill 2003)‚ Maya Angelou tells the story of life in 1940s Stamps‚ Arkansas. She explains how it feels to be discriminated and thought of as less than equal. Angelou shows that with a strong will to overcome‚ it is more than possible to set aside disgusting racism and impersonal discrimination. Angelou delivers a very detailed‚ inspirational‚ and
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we are the image that is associated with our name. In the outline of the essay‚ the narrator is informative of how it was like to live in that precise time period. Margaret distinguished between a white girl and a black girl developing up in the south. Mrs. Viola’s friend sees a lack of importance in calling Margaret by her actual name‚ as “that may be‚ but the name’s too long. I’d never bother myself. I’d call her Mary if I was you.” In doing this‚ “Old Speckled-Face‚” as Margaret called her‚ attempts
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Maya Angelou’s The Graduation Throughout life graduation‚ or the next level of growth‚ is sometimes known with the circumstance of the grand ceremony‚ but many times the graduation is not as exciting. In the moving essay‚ "The Graduation‚" by Maya Angelou applies three strategies - an expressive voice‚ illustrative comparison and contrast‚ and flowing sentences with imagery - to see the truth about humans caught in the line of racial discrimination. In a great voice‚ Ms. Angelou pictures
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In the story‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird sings‚ the character Marguerite is Maya when she was a little girl‚ whose childhood made her strong. She is a very smart girl who deals with new problems that she learns from and others she would try to understand what had happened. Maya lived with her grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas because her parents sent her along with her older brother Bailey and at age 6 and seven they both questioned why their parents sent them. She was sexually assaulted and later
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so why do guys choose her over the pretty woman? She begins to tell them but they still don’t see it. It’s the way she stands straight and proud with her bright noticeable smile. She seems like a nice happy person and has a positive outlook on life. Her personality is filled with potential. In other words‚ there is much more to see then what meets the eyes. In the last stanza she expresses that it is time for them to understand why I don’t look down on myself and why I keep my head up or I don’t
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to feel proud of what God has endowed us with. Women should not succumb to the artificial canons of beauty. Maya Angelou reminds us that our beauty lies much beyond the outer appearance. She lists down some qualities that make truly phenomenal and why other women and men find her beauty mysterious. “Phenomenal Woman” begins with a stark comment saying that she is neither cute nor has a great figure to suit a model’s size. She tells that ‘pretty women’ often wonders where the secret of her success
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racism and being strong in many aspects in life. I definitely think that if you want to be treated with respect and dignity‚ you should follow this wonderful example that is momma´s Encounterʺ. Maya Angelou expressed her personal experiences about a home rutine with momma and the punishments if this rutine was not followed. How momma was strong to not let the powhitetrash kids (as she called them) made her feel inferior. Angelou understood why momma was so strict‚ it was a method of implying discipline
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