Character Analysis: I Know Why The Caged Bird

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 was muted by guilt. She finally met both of her parents, but they weren't what she had expected. Maya's life opened her eyes and made her realize what is really in front of her the whole time, although that is true, what still stays the same is that
Freeman but she didn't understand it because all he did was jerk off next to her while holding her but she didn't care due to the fact that she just loved that she was actually getting some closure by someone which she never got. The one thing that she was confused about was why Mr. Freeman said "If you ever tell anybody what we did, I'll have to kill Bailey." After another attempt of sexual molestation, in chapter 12 when Maya got home from buying milk Mr. Freeman started to call her to him and little did she knew he raped her and she didn't do anything because of the threats that he made toward her. She never said anything until one day while Maya was feeling under the weather because of realizing what had happened to her, Bailey was changing the sheets of the bed and then her bloody underwear fell out from under there. So finally, Maya came clean and told them what had happened and Mr. Freeman got arrested. During the trial when Maya was getting questioned, she lied about if he had molested or raped her before. It didn't matter anymore because Mr. Freeman was found dead by a slaughterhouse so Maya didn't talk for a while because she believes that her silence could prevent death because of what had