i know why the caged bird sings chapter 1

Her mom pays her airfare, and all Maya has to do is get to the airport. Then, she phones her mother and tells her that she wants to come home. They share everything among the group, and Maya ends up living there among the kids for a month. As it turns out, all of them live in the junkyard in separate cars, and go about doing various menial jobs during the day. When she wakes up, she finds a bunch of young people surrounding the car. Maya wanders around town, and decides to spend the evening in a junkyard car. And her shallow consideration of suicide also reveals a young girl with a taste for drama perhaps viewing recent events through the lens of melodrama makes bearing the facts easier for Maya. She even comes up with a quote to say before she dies, that is suitably maudlin. She does display her mother's temperament, though, as she is hot-tempered and violent in their encounter.Īgain, Angelou's tone turns melodramatic as she tells of thinking she is going to die from the minor cut that Dolores gives her. She alludes to Florence Nightingale to describe her manner, reinforcing this belief that she is innocent and can do some good but, she is clearly naïve, if she thinks that she can console this woman, who just declared that she hates Maya. Probably as a result of the Mexican adventure, Maya suddenly gets a bit full of herself she thinks that what she is doing is 'merciful,' letting a bit of the religious self-righteousness that she learned in Stamps get to her. He comes the next day, to give her money she decides to run away, and finds herself on the streets. His reasoning in not taking her to a hospital is selfish it would reflect badly on him, and he doesn't want that at all. Her father drives her away to a friend who is a nurse, who cleans and bandages Maya he then drives her to a friend's house for the night.

Her father comes back, gets Dolores in the house, and Maya tells him that Dolores cut her. Dolores is upset and insults Maya's mother, and Maya slaps her Dolores cuts Maya somehow, and Maya has to run and lock herself in her father's car to protect herself. Maya feels sorry for her, since she thinks her dad was cruel she goes out to try and console her, which is not a good idea. She says she wants to marry him, but dislikes Maya and doesn't want her around he storms out, and leaves her crying there. He reacts badly to this, since she is jealous without cause if her problem is Maya being there. They finally reach home, and Dolores is angry she and Daddy Bailey have an argument, and Dolores accuses him of letting his children come between them.

I know why the caged bird sings chapter 1