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Maya Angelou uses her captivating childhood to entrance her readers into the life of a young black girl in the 1930s-1940s and she shows her life experiences of heartbreak, seperation, admiration and many other qualities to take us through her life in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas where she spent a portion of her life living with her emotionally strong and stern grandmother and her father like figure of an uncle. Later on she moves with her mother to St. Lois and then to California during World War 2 as young Maya tries to change to city life with the help of her brother Bailey whom she quickly states in the novel, "I would be a major loser if Bailey turned up dead. For he was all I claimed, if not all I had." Life in Stamps is very difficult and callous for the Negro people, and Angelou conveys this so that the reader will have a greater understanding of what the times she lived in were like; she is also trying to teach us about the circumstances in which her people worked and the spirit they demonstrated. Angelou used alot of different devices to communicate her message.
Approximate Word count = 786
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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