Chapter 13

Chapter 13 was when Maya went to court. After she was released from the hospital, she was brought to court to testify against Mr. Freeman. However, she was still in so much
shock that she lied to teh court and aid he didnt rape her. She was angry because the
prosecuor didnt let her gather her thoughts. After the trial, Freeman was found dead
in an alley. She then decided not to talk because she beleived her words were responsible for freemans death. They then returned home to Stamps Arkansas

Chapter 13

chapter 11

Chapter 11 started out ok then it really got disturbing! It starts off with Maya talking about St. Louis. It sounds like she relly dosent care for it that much. She said that she decided that St. Louis was a foreign country. She couldn't get used to things like the scurrying sounds of flushing toilets, packaged foods, doorbells etc. Maya's mother was anurse and made extra money cutting poker games in gambling parlors. And Mr. Freeman always would wait for mama. She would come in and kiss him on the lips, kiss the children and asked about their homework. Mr. Freeman liked when mama came over to sit on his lap because a grin would always stay there. But even though he had mama Mr Freeman started to mess with Maya to. One morning when Maya woke up on her moms bed she felt a strange feeling on her left leg. Which happened to be his private part. As he got up hepulled Maya to him and put his hands between his legs. And Maya didn't mind cause it didn't hurt. He even rthrew the covers off and showed his thing. Maya said his thing stood up like a brown ear of corn. Then Mr. Freeman told Maya to feel it! She said it felt mushy and squirmy. So then he rushed off to the bathroom and there was a big wet spot on the bed. So bbasically Mr. Freman was messing with and raping a confused child who thought that he was being nice when he put her on his lap and was touching her. Sadly though this was an experience to which mmany girls go through. And it's a shame that it happened even in those early times!





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chapter 10

it was about the life of grandmother Baxter and how she mat her husband G. Phillips.in a hospital as she worked as a nurse and who loyal to his family Phil was. the grandmother is a head apishly in the police station and maya and baily was moved up a grade because they were smarter than the other kids in there grade level-and they live a great life i the city and they love the new foods they get

Chapter Nine

In Chaper nine, Maya's father came down to Stamps,Arkansas to visit her and Bailey. She was at first surprised at how tall and
handsome he was. He owned a grey car, which made her beleive he was rich. He spoke proper english a well. Maya said that the
week her father came, the Store ws filled with people that went to school with her father and people that heard about him.
Maya soon began like her father because he appeared to be intruding in all of her most private moments. He then told Maya and
Bailey that he was taking them to see their mother in St. Loiu. At first, she was terrified because she had no idea what her mother would be like. However, when she finally met her, she and Bailey were astounded at her beauty.

chapter 8

in this chapter it is about how maya had to deal with wight peoepl and there cash black people could not eat vanillla ice cream omly on july 4 and that maya had only two new clouths a year and had to re sole there shoes and they got gifes from there dad and mom but did not see thim and that made thim mad and sad

Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven was Maya talking about her grandmother. She was married three times, indicating that she was very pretty when
she was younger. Momma, as she is called by Maya and Bailey, was the one who owned the Store that all of the black people
went to. Momma was the only black woman maya had seen that was called mrs. by the people. There was an imcident where
a man was hunted for assaulting white womanhood. Momma and Uncle Willie hid the man in her store and then sent him with
a load of supplies to get through the road. He was caught however and he told them that Momma hid him in the store. When
she was brought to trial. When she told them she was the owner of the store, all of the whie people laughed, but were still n
shock that she was the owner of the Store.

chapter six

It talks about how maya angelo had problems with a reverend called Howard thomas. It wasent becaues he was obees and discustind, and the fact that he never remembered her name or her brothes[Bailey] was insulting but it wasent enugh to make them hate him. It was the action in the dinner table. He ate the biggest brownestand best parts of the chikenat every sunday meal. And it mainly talks about how he prayed a lot at the table until the food got cooled at the cathlic school and how he would talk with her uncle about doing it and how black people will get punished becaues white folks said that he did it to a white women. And thats mostly it.
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Chapter 5

Chapter 5 discusses a few thiing. It talked about how Maya's grandma Henderson had two rules, "Thou shall not be dirty" and "Thou shall not be impudent were the two commandments of Grandmother Henderson upon which hung their total salvation! Each night in the bitterest winter they were forced to wash thepr faces, arms, necks, legs and feets before going to sleep: She said that unprofane people couldn't control venturing into profanity. Maya's mom told her cleaniness was next to Godliness , and dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The impudent child was detested by God and a shame to its paents and could bring destruction to its house and line!!

chapter four

in this chapter maya talked about a black man that wore a suit that has land that sells medicine to the town people and how he is independent black man. then later she talks about how she was made fun of by people and the brother gets them back by joking with them and make them feel bad that made her feel better and later on they played when the grandma work in the shop and that mayas grandma sends them to get food at stores to get food because they do not have a freezer.

Chapter Three

Chapter Three started off by er talking about how her Grandmothers Store was her favorite place in the world before they moved
from Arkansas. Maya described it as a present left by a stranger, and everyday it felt like opening the same gift over again.
She then went on to explain how her daily life was, helping out with the the store and in the farmyard with all the animals.
Then,near the middle of the chapter, the ex-sherrif Mr. Steward warned Maya's uncle Willie that a black man was messing with
a white woman, and that he should hide out in the Store until "The Boys",referrring to the Klu Klux Klan, was coming to do a search for the man.They hid in the store and were safe.

chapter two

in chapter two maya talk about her uncle who is a shap of a Z because he was droped as a baby when he was getting cared by the baby siter and he is now hes cripled and the mom thinks it is her fult

Chapter One

The first chapter was Maya describing black life in the South. She and her brother Bailey had to move in with her grandmother,
who owned a well-known store. Maya described life in the south for black people as harsh, as they were all mostly
farmers, cotton-pickers, and field workers. Maya and Bailey's parents had a divorce, and sent them on a train from
Long Beach, California to Stamps,Arkansas in the south. She described the harshness of black life in the south as being
softened by natures blessings