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As I read through out this book, it catches my attention more and more. In the beginning Maya Angelou gives a little description of everyone. She explains how much she loves her brother bailey, and how she’s grateful to have him all to herself. Their playmates describe her as being “shit color”, I don’t think that’s very nice. In this point in the book I feel as though her elders try to put her down by saying unkind things about her. Luckily her brother Bailey would be there and ask the craziest thing in a sarcastic way. It always gets her to laugh after many insults. Maya looks up to her older brother, she loves him dearly. During this time and place people were segregated and she had known of white people but all she knew was that they were different. Maya didn’t even think that the phrase “white people” even existed. Black Children didn’t even know what whites looked like. They figured that they weren’t people at all they couldn’t be, they were too white. As I get more involved with the narrator, I later find out that maya gets raped by her mothers boyfriend. At first he didnt take advantage of her but after a couple of times he went straight for her "personals". That was very shocking that he would do that to an 8 year old child. I hated that so much. He messed up her child hood for the rest of her life. It was even moe shocking whe she decided to keep her mouth closed about it, luckily her mom felt as if she was sick and started doing for her. Mom ended up finding the bloody underwhere which stayed under her bed after she got raped. Mom took her to the hospital. Moms boyfriend"mr. freeman" killed hisself after the first trial that took place.

Poor maya was never the same as the other girls. She separated herself from the other girls becaus she felt as though they wont on her level. This is getting very interesting, Maya got punished for saying "by the way". At first i didnt understand why untill i read further, mom explained to her that white folks use that saying to mean "by Jesus", or God". They are very religious, but she got whipped for saying it. There preacher is very deep he says alot and with such strong meaning. One of his sayings was"Charity is simple." "Charity is poor." "Charity is plain." Back in this time white people stil had gardeners so they attended the meetings to give the hope. They felt as though the lord loved the poor and casted the high in the world. It goes on to saying that Bailey gets interested in girls and wants to play house. He builds a tent and him and a girl go and lay on eachother moving there hips. But one special girlk named Joyce, when he played house with her that actually "did the do". They've been through alot before there teens, Its so sad to know that there was and possibly is still being treated this way.

It was crazy, I cant believe he even did that and wasnt even 11 years old yet. He felt as though she was his first love. I felt as though she was a the "freak of last week." I say this because she didnt have much but Bailey was steeling food from his moms store. Which later led to Joyce running off with some railroad porter leaving Bailey with a broken heart. I felt his pain, right then and there. It was so sad, and he put on an act like he didn't even care, I've done that a few times.

This seletion is a wonderful read and i hope that anyone who read thes "samples" from the book that they'd love to read it.

Thank you for your time.

Maya Angelou is a creative thinker. The book grabbed my attention right away. Normally I get lost and don't follow. She is very close to her brother and loves him more than anything in the world. When she was talking about the long prayers before the Sunday dinner i laughed. I know exactly what she is talking about. Then how they have long sermons and how the church is always hot. It was funny reading the book because it was like she took it from my life. Me and my sister use to act up in church when we were little but only because we were young and didn't understand what church really was. We were taken outside to where the bathrooms were and got our butts beat. So I understand where her and Bailey were coming from. Oh, and when they had to sit up in front of the church I felt like I was back at my grandma's church. My grandma is an old fashion type of woman so she made me and all my cousins sit up front everytime we went to church with her. Even though we grew up in a different decade it's funny how some things never change and you start to realize your not the only one who has had to go through what your going through or what you've went through. Another interesting thing is how they would mock the paster and nobody would even know it. It was like an inside joke. Everyone has there inside funny thing that only you and a few other people know. Adults know your doing something wrong but they can't really figure out what you're doing so they really can't get mad at you because they have know idea why you're doing what you are. I can't wait to see whats next!-Jennifer B

I don't know how i would react if my parents came back after not seeing them for so long. I think it would awkward. I dont know how to young kids could understand that. It probably sucks that their dad had to leave them again. But he trusted in their mother to take care of them after all this time of her not being there. It has to be hard for the kids to understand why their parents keep getting up and leaving. I would never beable to leave my own children. I guess you have to give them some credit for coming back and wanting to be in their lives. Then again they missed out on alot of the things. I guess the best thing is to forgive and forget. and not that it makes it right but atleast the parents are trying to be involved now rather than before.-Jennifer B

Oh my gosh i cant believe what ive been reading. How could this girl go sleep with her moms boyfriend. That's so nasty. She's 8 years old. I guess she just didn't know how to react to what he was doing. He's talking about killing her brother if she ever told. I felt awful reading that. I would have been like umm could you please remove your "thing" from my leg. Then on top of that he hurts her and she doesn't knnow what to do. That's a shame.-Jennifer B.

Oh and how about when she gets wipped with a switch for saying "by the way". Apparently that waas saying gods name in vein.I wonder if i would have been as uderstanding if i was her back then.-Jennifer

O.K. well i seem to get shocked everytime i turn the page its like a new and crazy thing everytime. It never seems to end. It is so funny to me how it seems like there is never a dual moment in this girls life. -Jennifer

I kind of feel like im talking to myself because no one is discussing anything with me but all i can say is this book is really good.-Jennifer B.