For the next few years, on balmy spring days, blistering summer noons, and cold, wet, and wintry middays, Annie never disappointed her customers, who could count on seeing the tall, brown-skin woman bent over her brazier, carefully turning the meat pies. When she felt certain that the workers had become dependent on her, she built a stall between the two hives of industry and let the men run to her for their lunchtime…
I picked the story Ghosts by Edwidge Danticat from the unit 3. I chose this story because after I read the reviews I found that most of my classmates enjoyed the story and found it enlightening. The review of Sarrah Fallaha impressed me because she described the story in the same way that I saw it . "I like this story because it represents what the poor people feel and how they live in poor areas.…
Maya Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was a young influential black girl in Stamps, Arkansas. The three most remarkable people in Maya’s life were Bailey, Vivian Baxter, and Grandmother Henderson. Bailey, her brother, was there for her when she needed someone, and Vivian Baxter taught her how to express herself. Grandmother Henderson was the person who always supported Maya Angelou and taught her almost everything she knows.…
Maya Angelou is saying traveling is neccasary to understand ones culture. Many people dont really see how much alike we are, instead we choose to see the differences. Maya Angelou thinks that traveling the world will allow you to hear different languages, and understand different cultures. Doing this, she believes, will allow you to understand how closely related we are, and hopefully create a bond of…
Maya Angelou did a poem that inspire many women and she recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning", for president Bill Clinton . Her poem was about the significant of the rock, river, and tree, which stands for what the people have done. In her poem she’s telling people to not be afraid and live with courage. She also describes how many people have been ignored, hurt, and treated bad. But than people had the courage to speak up and say something about it without hiding anything.…
They had to endure embarrassing moments to put food on the table. A common way to get food and money for many people in poverty in Ireland was through churches and charities. Angela goes to the St. Vincent De Paul Society for help. The women question Angela because of her appearance, but with her pity story they come through and give her money for groceries. Ashamed enough to go to the charity, it was more embarrassing for Angela to explain her husband’s drinking and children’s suffering. In more than one situation Angela borrowed money from the grocery store to pay for the small amount of food needed to feed her family. It was embarrassing for Angela to continue borrowing money, even if she paid it back. Angela had no other choice but to borrow money. Without the food she and her family would starve. On Christmas the McCourts could not afford a typical Christmas ham from the butchers shop. The only thing cheap enough was a pig’s head that the butcher gave to them out of pity. Frank carried the pig head throughout the streets as his friends laughed at him. To cook the pig Frank and his father, Malachy, collected coal along the streets. Again they were laughed at for their poverty. When the pig’s head was ready to be eaten Malachy does not want to eat it. “He takes the plate that holds the pig’s head and puts it on the floor under the table. Now,…
Angelou’s detailed explanation of her graduation reminds me of my own graduation. The more I read, the more I found similarities. My graduation was very meaningful to me, and like Angelou I was anticipating the day that I was able to walk across the stage and receive my diploma I had spent twelve years working very hard to obtain. The day of my graduation I was pleased to see so many of my classmates that I had grown up with right there beside me. I had never seen so many smiling faces before. Angelou describes a particular part of her experience that I relate to most,…
The short story that I chose was "The story of an hour by Kate Chopin. The story is about Mrs, Mallards sister Josephine telling her about her husbands death. Mrs, Mallard took the death very hard, and was very depressed for sometime. Her husband Brently was in a railroad accident, and his friend Richard was in the newsroom when he read the list of the men who lost their life. When she found out she wanted to be alone, and asked that no one followed her up into her room. She would stare out the window and just look out at the view. She smells the trees, and hears a peddler screaming out. She is taking the death of her husband very hard.…
Maya Angelou, who was the first African-American to work in the San Francisco streetcars, accomplished many things in her life. This fact proves that Angelou was a woman who believed in doing what needs to be done in order to accomplish her goals. Angelou made an impact on the world by creating books for children that could relate to most of their situations, but most importantly she fought for African American rights in the early and middle 1900s.…
“ Nobody has ever told us about the day when young Ann Story for she was thirty-three at the time her husband died, back in the Connecticut town, weary and waiting for news, watching the road anxiously saw her eldest son, foot-sore, dusty, ragged, his head hanging trudging in on the highway from the north. ” ”When Vermonters telling this story, come to the meeting of mother and son, they stop, swallow hard, and are silent for a moment ”. This initially tone of the story led me to believe that this story was going to be about a sorrow widowed woman, but the author manages to take the tone of the story on a whole new direction, causing me to disregard the initial presage notion I had about the story. As the tone of the story change my perception of who Ann Story was really changed, it showed the extent she was willing to go to carry out what she believed in. “Her sorrow over her husbands death seemed to her a mighty reason for carrying out what they had planned together, to make free landowners and citizens of their children…
Maya Angelou is an American poet that has gained national and international recognition for her unique writing styles. On the Pulse of Morning is a masterpiece created 1993 20th of January. In the year of 2008 an unprecedented victory was gained for all African-Americans. Maya Angelou read before millions of viewers on a historic inauguration proceedings for President Barack Obama.The election of America’s first Black Commander and Chief has defied all odds, given America's history of brutal treatment to the Black race. Although the poem had already been written, it held an even greater significance for all of America. The poem illustrates a historical triumph, perspective, and resilience for all of Black America watching the momentous occasion.…
The most interesting short stories that caught my undivided attention were: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler. These stories were both fascinating and intriguing in the sense that they made me feel like if I was the actual character. You could feel the pain and anguish the characters felt, even the desperation. It got to a point that I felt pity for the protagonist whom in both stories where narrating. Here we can see how someone can feel so desperate that they think the only way out is by taking their lives. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Robert Olen Butler created an incredible form of fiction that makes you question if the scenes in the stories can truly happen in reality.…
The second story I chose was “The God who Embraced me when Daddy Disappeared”. The story is about a kid who grew up without a dad. His father was arrested when he was younger and never came back. Then, one day he passed away and the man told him everything and told him how God was his father and how he grew up without him. This story affected me by showing me that even if you don’t have someone in your life that you need, you will always have God. I liked how he was in a bad situation and put everything aside and put it in God’s hands.…
In Maya Angelou’s excerpt, “What’s So Funny?” she pointed out that vulgarity and crudeness happens to be the direction in which comedians, entertainers, and people take their jokes. She explains that behind the obscene profanities, are people who are just as vulgar as their jokes. By us laughing with them, we are not only stooping down to their level, we are also taking part in the humiliation.…
She began the paragraph “Jack and Annie were climbing up into their tree house, and at that moment a giant gold elephant came out of the trees and bit Jack in half.”…