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About the Book:

  • An autobiography about Maya Angelou's life throughout the 1920's & on.

Chapters 1-5:

  • Maya & her brother were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas when their parents divorced.
  • Their grandmother, Momma, owns the only store in their community.
  • Maya explains what it was like growing up in a black community.
  • She tells about when her Uncle Willie was almost accused for violating a white woman, but they hid him in the potato bin the Store.
  • She also explains how her Momma was well respected and taught Maya and her brother good manners.

Chapters 6-10:

  • Momma starting thinking it wasn't a good idea to talk harsh about white people.
  • She often helped people who did.
  • Maya also explains about the christmas her parents sent presents for them.
  • Maya and Bailey began to feel sad, because they didn't know what they did wrong to make their parents want to send them away.
  • Not too long after, their dad comes and takes them to live with their mother in St. Louis.
  • Maya thinks her dad acts like a white man and doesn't want to go with him.
  • But has to.

Chapters 11-15:

  • While living with her mother in St. Louis, Maya gets raped by her mother's boyfriend
  • Because she is so scared of him, she doesn't say anything in court.
  • The court however, sends him to jail.
  • Before he gets there, Maya's uncles "get rid of him".
  • They shortly return to Stamps.
  • Maya starts visiting a white woman, Mrs. Flowers, who is trying to make her less quiet and makes her read new books.
  • Maya is really excited about this.

Chapters 16-19:

  • Maya takes a job for Mrs. Viola.
  • Mrs. Viola wouldn't call Maya by her real name.
  • Maya broke her favorite dish and ran home.
  • Later, the town crowded into the Store to listen to the boxing match between a black man and a white man.
  • The black man won.
  • Maya thought he proved how stong black people really are.

Chapters 20-22:

  • Maya makes her first friend at a anual barbeque.
  • One night, a man named George Taylor comes and stays the night at the Store.
  • He claims he heard his dead wife talking .
  • She said she wanted a baby.
  • The story scares Maya.

Chapters 23-26:

  • Maya graduates the 8th grade.
  • The speaker was white, and repeated how the white schools had gotten new equipment.
  • Maya feels like he had ruined the joy of graduation.
  • One day, Bailey comes home scared.
  • He had just seen the dead body of a black man.
  • A white man ordered Bailey to help haul the body away.
  • He started questioning why white people were so cruel to black people.
  • Momma decided it would be safest to send Maya and Bailey back to their mothers.

Chapters 27-31:

  • Maya is transfored to a white school.
  • There's only 3 other black students there.
  • Later, Maya's father invites her to live visit him and his girlfriend.
  • They end up going to Mexico together, where her father gets drunk and she drives.
  • She crashes at the boarder.
  • When they returned home, her dad and his girlfriend got in an argument.
  • Maya and her father's girlfriend end up arguing as well.
  • Maya feels guilty about coming in between her father and his relationship.

Chapters 32-36:

  • Maya starts to get an interest in dancing.
  • She also succeeds at becoming the first black person to work on San Francisco street cars.
  • She gets a boyfriend and later becomes pregnant.
  • She throws herself into school so she doesn't drop out.
  • When she graduates she confesses that she's 8 months pregnant.
  • When she gives birth to a boy she's afraid to touch him.
  • She loves him to death and doesn't want to hurt him.
  • She becomes a adult quickly but she accepts it.

Chapters 6-10:

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