RR #10

8/16/10
pages 201-242

When Angelou realized moving back with her mother would mean people mentioning Mr. Freeman she was worried. After arriving and finding that nobody was concerned with that part of the past, she relaxed. Bailey and Maya's relationship with their mother grew stronger and stronger. However, when Maya went to spend a summer with her father the two grew apart. Maya expected more out of her trip and soon realized her father was someone she hadn't thought him to be. As a child you are blinded by your parents flaws, but when you grow, you grow to see they are not as perfect as you once believed. When Maya started to learn of her father's traits, it reminded me of the relationship with my father. It was easy to understand where she was coming from when she spoke of his "ways". The difference was that I have never spent a month in a car junkyard because of my father. She also learned who a good father was through her mother's second husband, I have also learned through my step-father.