The power of acceptance can neutralize or make current unpleasant experiences into positive ones. In Maya Angelou’s memoir All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Angelou moves to a small country known as Ghana in Northern Africa from America for her son to go to college, Angelou comes to find out her ancestor’s would not welcome her family with open arms. Angelou reveals her struggle of being neglected by her ancestor’s home country of Ghana due to the fact the Ghanaian natives have a bad view of African American’s. Undoubtedly, Maya Angelou needs one gift: acceptance. The acceptance from the Ghanaian people will limit the hate on Angelou for making decisions as an African American and help Angelou live a pleasant life in Ghana with her American views.
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Specifically, a young African – American couple shows up at Angelou’s house looking for help in the Ghana community. Angelou and the couple began to dispute about how natives should view the African culture. In a simile, the couple shares to Angelou, “It’s just like Negroes. They are here, in their own place, and they don’t want us in. Just like crabs in a bucket. Pulling the other one down”(41). Surely, when one considers the remark made by the couple their comparing an African not letting an African – American into the community just like the crabs stuck in a bucket, one crab would not let the other one escape. At this time the couple and Angelou started to get annoyed with each other due to the fact their views of Africa were different. The gift of acceptance would allow the couple and Angelou to accept each other’s views of Africa and be able to work together to find away to merge into the community as one.
To assist Maya Angelou in her struggles in Ghana, the acceptance from the …show more content…
Specifically, a young African – American couple shows up at Angelou’s house looking for help in the Ghana community. Angelou and the couple began to dispute about how natives should view the African culture. In a simile, the couple shares to Angelou, “It’s just like Negroes. They are here, in their own place, and they don’t want us in. Just like crabs in a bucket. Pulling the other one down”(41). Surely, when one considers the remark made by the couple their comparing an African not letting an African – American into the community just like the crabs stuck in a bucket, one crab would not let the other one escape. At this time the couple and Angelou started to get annoyed with each other due to the fact their views of Africa were different. The gift of acceptance would allow the couple and Angelou to accept each other’s views of Africa and be able to work together to find away to merge into the community as one.