RR#4

8/16/10
pages 77-92

Chapter 12 starts off on the Saturday that Maya Angelou was raped. Reading about someones personal experience like that is difficult. Trying to put myself in her shoes I tried to imagine what I would have done differently, there wasn't much. Being so young and Mr. Freeman being such a large man, there was not much that Angelou could have done. If I were threatened at the age of 7 that someone would kill one of my siblings, I would have kept it to myself just as Maya had. I was relieved that someone finally found out what had happened. It was heart breaking to read about a little girl who thought she was easy because of something that had been done to her. If I were Maya's mother I don't know if I would have sent her back to Stamps. After all she had just been getting used to it and it was as if she were punishing Bailey too.

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