Annie had the support and encouragement that she needed from her mother to continue on to study at Xavier University, which at the time was an African-American
Annie ran away from the foster home and ran home to her mother. There she found her mother, but in worse shape than when she had left. Her mother had remarried, but her new husband had died. He had left her with another child.
The biggest tragedy in the novel is when Francis drops his infant son while he was drunk. He dropped his son and his son ended up dying from being dropped. This caused Francis to leave his family for many years and desert everyone who loved him because he thought everyone hated him. This was a bad decision because Annie did not end up telling anyone about Francis dropping the baby and no one loved him any less due to what he did. Instead he was gone all those years and lost all the time spent with his family that he could have
Annie couldn’t protect her brother, when she was younger, as she told him she would. When Annie got the job, working with Helen, she kept persevering with Helen because she couldn’t let another person down like she did with Jimmie. Her past with Jimmie kept haunting her all throughout her life until she finally reached Helen. I think because she reached Helen it was her second chance to save someone she cared about. When Annie was younger she became blind.
She was married until she told her husband, her dissatisfaction with marriage and he conceded that he too found it less than he expected. So he took enough money to make it to Oklahoma and become a minister, but what he didn’t say was that he knew a minister who he could study with and an unmarried daughter. Then after he left there was Annie with two beautiful children whom she didn’t want to leave just to become a maid or a servant, so she decided that she would change directions. The next morning she got up early and started making meat pies.
III. a. Maya Angelou was an avid writer, speaker, activist and teacher. As a result of the many hardships that she suffered while growing up as a poor black woman in the south she has used her own experiences as the subject matter of her written work. In doing this she effectively shows how she was able to overcome her personal obstacles. Her autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) tells the story of her life and how she overcame and moved forward triumphantly in spite of her circumstances.
In my opinion, empathy takes some understanding of the situation that someone is going through. If we cannot understand the tragedies people face then we won't be able to empathize with them. Instead, we pity them for having to experience such a horrible life. Now days we say we understand people and their feeling, but we can never fully understand unless we go through the exact same situation. Authors like Maya Angelou can help shed some light on a terrible situation, but in the long run unless we face the same situation we will never be able to understand their pain.
In the opening paragraphs, Angelou uses suspenseful imagery to indicate that a crucial event is about to occur. Beginning the chapter, with “the last inch of space was filled,” paints a crowded and high energy scene for the reader. She continues this claustrophobic description by showing the layers of people “perched on every lap available.” In addition, a good indicator is the mood. Not only is the atmosphere described as “apprehensive,” but the author also facilitates her own description with sharp dialogue that pierces the scene.
The main one being her firmly believing her mother was against her. Her hate for her mother grew throughout the story. Annie first felt this when her mom bought different clothing, whereas Annie was accustomed to wearing the same thing as her mom. She also later on called her mom a hore. This is very regrettable because all in all Annie misjudged her mom as she was only trying to do what was best for her daughter.
This explains what Annie did to try and get better for the job she was striking for which lead her family and herself to a better life. “Step off that road into another direction.” This proves that Annie was not afraid to cut herself a new path. Moreover in “The Other Side of the Sky” by Farah Ahmedi and Tanim Ansary, Farah Ahmedi and her mother are trying to find a better life in a different location where there is no war to worry
Throughout this poem, Robert Frost uses extended metaphors to convey that every human has a path that causes them to constantly make choices that will continue to shape their lives. In the first lines of the poem, Frost states, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both” (Lines 1-2). Immediately, the idea is established that the speaker has to make a decision.
Annie does not know her family as they “died in the hunger” (11) when she was a baby. All that she knows about her past
Frost 's “The Road Not Taken, consists of metaphors, describing the path as life’s journey and the fork as the many choices that lie ahead. The opening line of the poem depicts life as a path, “diverging.” “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” (Lines 1-2). This metaphor presents the path as a expedition through life, and the writer wishes he could travel both paths, but is forces to choose one path. The diverging path represents the choices one most confront in life 's journey, and the reader, just as the traveler, in the poem is faced with the realization that there are two choices and the importance of the decision.
“Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil” (pg. 3). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou’s autobiography of her early life, growing into a young woman, and finding herself in the process. Maya Angelou grew up in the time of Segregation, trying to discover who she was separated from the rest of the world. With only her brother Bailey, and her grandmother, “Momma,” to take solace in, for most of her early life she felt as though she had no friends. The title is a metaphor.
In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost uses beautifully crafted metaphors, imagery, and tone to convey a theme that all people are presented with choices in life, some of which are life-altering, so one should heavily way the options in order to make the best choices possible. Frost uses metaphors to develop the theme that life 's journey sometimes presents difficult choices, and the future is many times determined by these choices. Throughout the poem, Frost uses these metaphors to illustrate life 's path and the fork in the road to represent an opportunity to make a choice. One of the most salient metaphors in the poem is the fork in the road. Frost describes the split as, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both (“The Road Not Taken,” lines 1-2).
