In chapters 30 to 36 of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are very entertaining. There are many events that take place, however I will try to focus on the big events. Maya and her father return from Mexico without any groceries and smelling of liquor. This makes Mayas step mother Dolores very upset. Maya and Dolores ends up in a fight, which leaves Maya with a cut. Maya runs away for a month and lives on the street. She ends up living around blacks, whites, and spanish people while homeless. The homeless people teach Maya how to drive. Maya finally calls her mother Vivian and she returns to San Francisco to live. Bailey Maya’s brother is now sixteen and is a gangster and has a white prostitute. He thinks he is a man and moves out of his mother
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Maya struggles with her sexual identity from the beginning of the book when she got raped. Maya thought she was a woman because she was raped but yet still a child. In these chapters Maya’s body is developing and she is confused about things that are growing on her body. She asks her mother to get clarity on why her body has things growing out of it. Maya states, “Mother something is growing on my vagina[...] on both sides. Inside.” Maya continued to think, “I couldn’t add that they were flesshy skin flaps that had been growing for months down there. She’d have to pull that out of me.” Vivian had to explains to Maya the meaning of vulva and that every woman has one. Vivian states. “ Ritie go get that big webster’s and then bring me a bottle of beer. Sit down baby. read this. her fingers guided my eyes to vulva.” Furthermore, Maya is reading a book about lesbians and starts to think she is a lesbian. Maya states, “For months the book was both a treat and a threat. It allowed me to see a little of the mysterious world of the pervert.” At a sleepover Maya sees her friend’s breasts and finds them to be beautiful, but feels this also makes her gay. Maya, says, “All I knew was that I had been moved by looking at a woman's breasts.” Maya thinking that she is a lesbian shows that she is struggling with her sexual identity. She decides to get a boyfriend to prove to herself that she is not a pervert and ends up
Maya struggles with her sexual identity from the beginning of the book when she got raped. Maya thought she was a woman because she was raped but yet still a child. In these chapters Maya’s body is developing and she is confused about things that are growing on her body. She asks her mother to get clarity on why her body has things growing out of it. Maya states, “Mother something is growing on my vagina[...] on both sides. Inside.” Maya continued to think, “I couldn’t add that they were flesshy skin flaps that had been growing for months down there. She’d have to pull that out of me.” Vivian had to explains to Maya the meaning of vulva and that every woman has one. Vivian states. “ Ritie go get that big webster’s and then bring me a bottle of beer. Sit down baby. read this. her fingers guided my eyes to vulva.” Furthermore, Maya is reading a book about lesbians and starts to think she is a lesbian. Maya states, “For months the book was both a treat and a threat. It allowed me to see a little of the mysterious world of the pervert.” At a sleepover Maya sees her friend’s breasts and finds them to be beautiful, but feels this also makes her gay. Maya, says, “All I knew was that I had been moved by looking at a woman's breasts.” Maya thinking that she is a lesbian shows that she is struggling with her sexual identity. She decides to get a boyfriend to prove to herself that she is not a pervert and ends up